At the occasion of the SIGraDi 2024 conference dedicated to research into biodigital intelligent system, Aurélie Mosse from Soft Matters presented the paper entitled “Pepeyoca: Reconsidering The Bioreactor As A Bioluminescent Living Wall For Human-Bacterial Co-Inhabitation” developed as part of the ImpressioVivo project in collaboration with the Centre for IT & Architecture (Royal Danish Academy).

The paper contributes to the search for novel design principles for an interspecies architecture. Departing from the installation ‘Pepeyoca – light from within’, it examines emerging design strategies that can entangle human and more-than-human concerns at multiple scales and across distinct life forms. By focusing on bioluminescent bacteria as a living light source and heather as a soil remediator and oxygen producer, the paper presents novel design strategies for circular interdependency in which multiple species directly support and provide foundational conditions for one another.

Authors: Aurélie Mosse, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Vincent Rennie, Daniel Suárez Zamora, Guro Tyse and Martin Tamke.

The paper can be found in the proceedings of the conference and soon on CuminCad.

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