First Encounters

Anticipatory Ecology meets Speculative Design

Departments
Industrial Design 2
Institute of Design
Sophie Falkeis (Diploma Project)
Betreuer*in: Anab Jain

What happens, if two species that have never interacted before are now going to encounter due to anthropocentrically changed climatic circumstances?

We are currently experiencing a global redistribution of life on earth. The project ‚First Encounters’ tells the stories of species that meet for the very first time, due to climate-change induced range shifts. An ecological momentum of its own has been generated that evolved out of our history of anthropogenic impact on biological processes. The installation visualizes possible consequences that travel through local ecologies to various human-made systems, to manifest as real every-day challenges for us humans to overcome. The mission of the project is to make the consequences we set off with our own actions a spatial experience, showing that we are just one species amongst many.

(c) Sophie Falkeis

(c) Sophie Falkeis

(c) Sophie Falkeis

(c) Sophie Falkeis