Natalia Grabowska, Assistant Curator Touring Rebecca Lewin, Curator, Exhibitions and Design Riccardo Badano, Simón Ballen Botero, Gregorio Gonella, Jeroen Van De Gruiter, Johanna Seelemann, Peter Sorg Exhibition curated by
Marco Carrer, University of Padua, Padua Emanuele Coccia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Vanessa Richardson, Environmental Investigation Agency, London Gaia Amazonas, Bogotá Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam Magnifica Comunita di Fiemme, Cavalese Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden Philipp Pattberg, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren Thünen Institute, Hamburg Sissel Tolaas, Smell Researcher and Artist Victoria And Albert Museum, London Special thanks toĪtticus Stovall, Johanna Agerman Ross, Joost Grootens, Galleria Giustini Stagetti, Roma, Alice Rawsthorn, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Giacomo Moor Leonardo Scalet, K48 Production – Leone Balduzzi and Barbara Guieu, Nele Schmitz, Pieter Baas, Gerald Koch, Paola Antonelli, Libby Sellers, Nick Humphrey, Tamar Shafrir, Michela Pellizzari, Fabio Ognibeni and Ciresa, Marina Otero, Anastasia Kubrak Formafantasma team Guests included Paola Antonelli (MoMA), Stefano Boeri (Architect), Rebecca Lewin (Serpentine Galleries) and more. Antenna FantasmaĪntenna Fantasma was a weekly live program of conversations around design, ecology and sustainability hosted by Formafantasma.Īntenna Fantasma was produced during lockdown in response to the temporary closure of Formafantasma’s Cambioexhibition as a way of further exploring ideas examined in the show through conversations with designers, architects, academics, scientists and curators who contributed.
The future of design can and must attempt to translate emerging environmental awareness into a renewed understanding of the philosophy and politics of trees that will encourage informed, collaborative responses. This multidisciplinary exhibition highlights the crucial role that design can play in our environment, and its responsibility to look beyond the edges of its borders. Together, they move from a microscopic analysis of wood and its ability to store carbon dioxide, to a metaphysical understanding of trees as living organisms.
Each of these investigations represents a collaboration with experts from the fields of science, conservation, engineering, policymaking and philosophy.
FANTASMA PARA PHOTO SHOP SERIES
Like the rings of a tree, the central spaces of the exhibition present data and research in the form of interviews, reference materials and two films made by Formafantasma in response to their research, while the perimeter spaces offer a series of case studies that provide insight into the way wood is sourced and used.
FANTASMA PARA PHOTO SHOP ARCHIVE
Contained in every piece of wood is an archive of climatic change and the movement of natural materials around the world.Ĭambio also references the cambial layer, a membrane that runs around the trunk of trees, producing wood on the inside, a record of the tree’s past, and bark on the outside, enabling it to keep growing. The newest are the exhibition display furniture and seating designed by Formafantasma, all of which were made from a single tree blown over in a storm in northern Italy in 2018. The earliest objects in the exhibition are samples of rare hardwoods first exhibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851, a few hundred metres from this building, which represent trees logged to the point of extinction. It grew out of the bioprospecting that took place throughout colonial territories during the 19th century, becoming one of the largest industries in the world both in terms of the revenue it generates and the impact it has on the planet’s biosphere. The evolution of this form of commerce over time, and its tentacular expansion across the globe, has made it difficult to regulate. Their holistic approach reaches back into the history of a particular material used by humans, out towards the patterns of supply chains that have developed to support and expand its use, and forward to the future of that material’s survival in relation to human consumption.Ĭa mbio, from the medieval Latin cambium, ‘change, exchange’, is an ongoing investigation conducted by Formafantasma into the governance of the timber industry. Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin) are designers who dissect the ecological and political responsibilities of their discipline.
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