SUBSURFACE/CONVECTION
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Grugg & Makk
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2022
The exhibition SUBSURFACE - CONVECTION brings together two projects related to the ecosystem of lava on both micro and macro scale. s. ap arkitektar´s „Lavaforming“ is the architecture of a technologically advanced society that has abandoned profit maximization and is therefore free to explore solutions to the building material crisis of the world.
Grugg og Makk's project deals with microorganisms that are mostly hidden from our view, although all-encompassing. They play a key role in the earth's ecosystems and thrive in the most unlikely of places in some of the most difficult conditions that exist. Lava flow has shaped the landscape for billions of years, but in human times lava has been a destructive force.
Microorganisms are the first to colonize new lava and lay the foundation for a new ecosystem, but in this project humans also participate in its formation.