grow – Transfering natural behavioral pattern into Design.

Nature knows it‘s way. Growing, developing, procreating and reproducing are the basic underlying intentions of natural behavior. Things happen after distinct rules: they follow patterns, they repeat.When living things grow, they do it in a certain way, it doesn‘t matter if they are animals, plants or fungi. These rules are storaged in the chemical library of the respective living thing – the DNA.

Biology has always been one of my deepest interests. The way things work in this world, understanding scientific explanations and learning how to use them to solve problems.For my pre-diploma I worked with the fungus penicillium roqueforti, which is as you already might think: the mold that turnes milk into the delicious and beautiful cheese that we know as Roquefort Cheese or its milder variant: Gorgonzola. And as you read the name another part might have catch our interest: the genus Penicillium is not only vital for the production of various foods but also drugs. Especially penicillin the bacteria-killing antibiotic.

Working with the marble-like aesthetic of blue-mold cheese and transferring it to one of the most pattern dependant mediumf fashion. Clothing submerged into a wearable peace of blue-mold with the velvet-like surface of the mold. A scarf made out of 100% natural Cotton.

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