Body Performing Nature

Led by an architect and leading thinker in
biomimicry, this workshop
starts from the analysis of our own body and our
skin: the organ that enables us to connect
with the others. How can we, as creative artistic
minds, envision our future as part of nature:
poetically, technologically and materially
connected? We are nature and nature is all around
us. We will explore CalArts campus, observe our
bodies and the living organisms around us.
Working in group, we will extrapolate lessons and
cues, and we will design and make a
wearable artifact that will enhance and extend our
perceptions and connections to other
living organisms and augment sensations and
atmospheric adaptations with the ecology of
the site. A prosthesis, a sculpture, a prop, an
extension, that extends our "skin" and connects
us with and to the other/s; with the serious yet
playful intent to better understand body, space
and the environment in this era of disconnect with
the environment. This cross-disciplinary
class embodies the rigorous spirit of
experimentation intersecting learning and
practice,
connecting science and the arts with the intent to
produce 4D experiences.