Tsz Ki Chan, Fareeha Amjad, Ashma Gautam, and Sandu Cojocar

We are connected to nature as much as we are connected to each other. Humans and nature coexist in one coherent, active system where every component has agency and meaning. In today’s Age of Anthropocene, humans are the influential species on the planet, causing significant changes to land, environment and water. However, we often disregard our intimate connection to the earth.
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Mukul Menon, Kat Suryna, Sumreen Shahzad, and Bena Torres

This project looks at creating literacy around the subject of deep-sea mining through critical play. Deep-sea mining is a practice of extracting minerals from the ocean floor for industries, such as the production of digital devices and lithium batteries for electric vehicles. Nations, governments, and private corporations construct the inevitability of deep-sea mining by claiming its necessity for the green economy – whilst environmental impacts are understudied and extremely uncertain. .  (read more)

KIN-DER.INC discusses the dogma of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) and biopolitics surrounding the body as a vessel for breeding new life. The project uses absurdity and comedy to unpack the black box of biotechnology. Inspired by the mockumentary genre, the video installation addresses the design thinking methodology applied to contemporary “family design” to understand how control and customization over objects and subjects’ experiences have transferred to designing reproduction.
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Display is an ephemeral, site-specific installation consisting of an inflatable made of yellow biohazard waste bags and light manipulation. The exterior of the artwork alludes to a smartphone screen by utilizing a window frame of the Create building. Display enables visitors to either enter the inflatable and become part of the manufactured spectacle or stand outside the window frame and watch the attendants inside. The participants’ roles switch depending on where they stand within the installation – they can choose to either observe and or be observed.
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In her project Silent Dialogue, Diana Pankova turns her gaze onto the machinery of the event venue, the Aalborg University Create campus building. Usually buzzing with student life, the building suddenly became silent during the lockdown, revealing the usually hidden level of its existence to the attentive observer. Pankova establishes a dialogue with the giant machine of the university campus, looking through the eyes of ‘simple machines’: pinhole cameras. Based on the ancient principle of the camera obscura, a pinhole camera obtains images by letting light through a tiny hole without the use of lenses. (read more)