pietro quintino sella © 2024
AMANTE
2021
LIVING CELLS - BIOLUMINISCENCE - 3D PRINTING
FASHION SEMANTICS WITH WITH A DEEPER PURPOSE
Context:
This project explores technology as a transformative tool for the wearers of clothing, generating a reinvention of fashion systems. While hyper-functional materials already monitor our everyday lives; Amante experiments augmented clothing, investigating new perceptions of our environment and human which make us think in new ways. Using biology, innovative materials, and 3D printing technology, Amante seeks to stimulate the human senses, perceive the wearers and their surroundings.
which makes us think in new ways. Using biology, innovative materials, and 3D printing technology, Amante seeks to stimulate the human senses and perceive the wearers and their surroundings
computational design and differential growth, are technical concepts, which allowed me to shape a design that follows the structure of the body
Dissected 3 parts from the entire computational structure, such as the upper back, shoulders, and chest.
These three pieces, functioning as the habitat where the bacteria will grow, will be 3d printed within the fabric,
functioning as a natural “bioluminescent” wearable light
The bacteria are no longer luminescent in the squid but on our skin. Furthermore, the light is activated
a person’s movement, thus the human body and the piece itself develop this symbiotic relationship.
Bacteria are usually observed in their natural habitat, or confined to laboratories and Petri plates, I aimed to redesign
its habitat as wearables for contemporary humans. I want to challenge the relation of observation, instead of
confining our practice to the lab, we are able to share the experience and observe alongside the species,
encouraging persistent attention to nature and promoting a practice of care towards living beings.