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[https://michellebocker.com/Speculativegarden.html Speculative Garden]
[https://michellebocker.com/Speculativegarden.html Speculative Garden]


The garden is produced and needed by (wo)man for centuries, is referred to as the mirror of society that entangles nodes of power and control, but nowadays, it becomes crucial to consider the future of symbiosis with the technological object, the more-than-human and the environment.   
The garden is produced and needed by (wo)man for centuries, but nowadays, it becomes crucial to consider the future of symbiosis with the technological object, the more-than-human and the environment.   
 
Considering the garden as the future   


'''The concept was to create a garden as a sensorial exhibition'''   
'''The concept was to create a garden as a sensorial exhibition'''   
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Motivation  
Motivation  


At first, clothing began as a means of protection from the external environment. Then, transformed into materials to show the attitude. Today, clothes express ideas about identity and can be seen as manifestations of global systems of production.  
The aim was to create a "victimless utopia" which is against to material waste of global production and animal cruelty.  


Plan
Plan


Victimless Leather explores the future consequences and potentials of using tissue engineering to develop consumer products.  
Victimless Leather explores the future consequences and potentials of using tissue engineering to develop consumer products in leather production.  


Execution
Execution


This leather is cultured inside a custom-made perfusion chamber, inspired by the organ perfusion pump originally designed by Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindbergh. The chamber has an automated system which drips into the polymers and feeds the cells with a nutrient media.
This leather is cultured inside a custom-made perfusion chamber, inspired by the organ perfusion pump