The Living Library is a transdisciplinary project developed at the Bio Design Lab of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Over the course of two years, it fostered practice-based learning focused on locally sourced raw materials within a 50-kilometre radius around the academy, experimental making, and regenerative modes of production.
The project is a hybrid and continually evolving ecosystem. It brings together a physical archive showing material samples, tools, processes, and workshop artefacts, and a digital archive featuring interactive maps, research, and material documentation. Guided by the principles of compostability, locality, and sustainability, the project follows ecological rhythms of seeding, growing, harvesting, and decay. Students, researchers, and local practitioners collaborated to map regional resources, harvest and transform bio-based materials, and investigate their lifecycles from origin to decomposition.
This publication reflects the project’s circular approach. It documents the physical and digital Living Library and brings together a series of essays that explore themes such as the archival qualities of soil or the garden-like cultivation of digital platforms. These essays invite readers to reconsider how knowledge can be grown, shared, and ultimately returned to the ground from which it emerged.
The Living Library is a transdisciplinary project developed at the Bio Design Lab of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Over the course of two years, it fostered practice-based learning focused on locally sourced raw materials within a 50-kilometre radius around the academy, experimental making, and regenerative modes of production.
The project is a hybrid and continually evolving ecosystem. It brings together a physical archive showing material samples, tools, processes, and workshop artefacts, and a digital archive featuring interactive maps, research, and material documentation. Guided by the principles of compostability, locality, and sustainability, the project follows ecological rhythms of seeding, growing, harvesting, and decay. Students, researchers, and local practitioners collaborated to map regional resources, harvest and transform bio-based materials, and investigate their lifecycles from origin to decomposition.
This publication reflects the project’s circular approach. It documents the physical and digital Living Library and brings together a series of essays that explore themes such as the archival qualities of soil or the garden-like cultivation of digital platforms. These essays invite readers to reconsider how knowledge can be grown, shared, and ultimately returned to the ground from which it emerged.
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There are Biocomposites Growing in My Garden
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There are Biocomposites Growing in My Garden
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There are Biocomposites Growing in My Garden
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Fotografien des Entstehungsprozesses und der Endergebnisse von dem Workshop „There are Biocomposites Growing in my Garden“ geleitet von Kim André Lange, Julia Ihls und Ina Grabosch.
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Photographs of the process and final results from the workshop "There are Biocomposites Growing in my Garden" led by Kim André Lange, Julia Ihls and Ina Grabosch.
Ein Info-Faltblatt, das in unmittelbarer Nähe des Biosensoriums ausgelegt war und von den Besuchern mitgenommen werden konnte, bot Einblicke in die Materialproben, die im Biosensorium ausgestellt waren. Diese Faltblätter wurden mit Spirulina-Farbe auf das recyceltem Papier gedruckt, welches auch für die Herstellung der Papercrete-Bricks verwendet wurde.
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An information leaflet, which was displayed in the immediate surrounding of the Biosensorium and could be taken away by the visitors, offered insights into the material samples that were exhibited in the Biosensorium. These leaflets were printed with spirulina ink on the recycled paper that was also used for the production of the Papercrete bricks.
Fotografien der Endergebnisse von dem Workshop „There are Biocomposites Growing in my Garden“ geleitet von Kim André Lange, Julia Ihls und Ina Grabosch.
Beschreibung (en)
Photographs of the final results from the workshop "There are Biocomposites Growing in my Garden" led by Kim André Lange, Julia Ihls and Ina Grabosch
Fotografien der Endergebnisse von dem Workshop „There are Biocomposites Growing in my Garden“ geleitet von Kim André Lange, Julia Ihls und Ina Grabosch.
Beschreibung (en)
Photographs of the final results from the workshop "There are Biocomposites Growing in my Garden" led by Kim André Lange, Julia Ihls and Ina Grabosch