The idea is to die young as late as possible. — Ashley Montagu — Thursday September 24th — —

“What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t. There are whole worlds around us that we’ve never glimpsed.” Greil Marcus — Thursday September 24th — —

I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time. — Nayyirah Waheed — Thursday September 24th — —

Feral Futures by Coloni and Studio Aikieu

During last week’s London Design Festival the super fascinating Plants Out Of Place initiative curated an exhibition with a selection of inspirational projects to introduce its mission to the public. The London-based initiative seeks to engage with the world to re-consider the value of wild plants and how we may utilize them to design for a better future – a vision through which they created a sensory event aiming to trigger the public on an experiential level to question the values and approaches to sustainable practices. The exhibition showed an overall high standard with work by inspirational names like Studio Drift and Drink Factory, yet we are most impressed by the work of our favorite; Coloni which combined forces with Studio Aikieu, resulting in some of the most beautiful imagery we have seen in months.

An exhibition celebrating the life of misunderstood plants. To unveil lost knowledge and narratives that challenges our perceptions and facilitates wider appreciation of the unwanted and unseen.

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These [portrayed] species are seen as intruders causing anarchy by growing in unwanted spaces. This brings to question on how humans try to control nature but nature has its own agenda. All species have in themselves a value, only by existing, independent of the values humans ascribe to them. As a contribution to overlooked plants, this project is a study of the personal characteristics and life of these plants.

To follow Plants out of Order and the see all the projects presented in the London Design Week exhibition see here.

For Coloni and its incredible collection see here.

For more work by Studio Aikieu see here.