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Green Heroes: Dreaming of a green city
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25/12/2024
Is it still possible to have a green city? Italian designers Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto have come up with projects inspired by fungi, algae and bacteria and have given rise to art installations, works of architecture and urban master plans.
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We design architecture like living organisms.
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Many of the elements that are present in the air that our city produces, like CO2, NOx, PM2.5,
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these are pollutants for us, negative for human beings,
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but they are actually nutrients from other organisms, such as, for example, microalgae.
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It's not a question of simply using other organisms or integrating them into buildings,
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it's really creating an alliance with the non-human, a microbial world.
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I'm Claudia Pasquero, I'm co-founder and director of Ecologist Studio.
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I'm Marco Poletto, and I'm director and co-founder of Ecologist Studio.
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Ecologist Studio is a design innovation company,
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specialized in the advanced integration of nature in the built environment.
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With Ecologist Studio, we are trying to materialize the paradigm of carbon neutrality.
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The algae is a layer of nature that is pervasive.
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In fact, they are some of the oldest organisms on Earth,
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and so they have evolved an exceptional biological intelligence,
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which makes them, first of all, capable of surviving in very extreme environments,
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but also makes them extremely efficient at converting carbon dioxide into biomass.
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That's where we began to see a very exciting opportunity
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in terms of designing interfaces that would enable its cultivation in the urban realm.
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The project in Warsaw is called Air Bubble,
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and it takes the issue of air pollution and sort of turns it on its head.
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The ambition of the project is to demonstrate that it is actually possible
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to create a pocket of clean air where children can play safely,
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and do so through the application of biotechnologies.
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So the project in Venice is called Beat Biobot,
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and expands on the question of how we live together.
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We present a new form of azole that is inhabited by both human and non-human,
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and in this case, non-human are multiple species of microalgae.
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The azole and the pygmy, really, where the air gets changed by passing through these microalgae.
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Our hope is that our creations become a new interface,
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essentially between the natural world and the design or the artificial realm.
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