Swarm's Scale
SWARM'S SCALE
Home made honeycomb, Plastic, wax, mixed media
Beeswax was man's first "plastic" and, for thousands of years, has been used as a modeling material to create sculpture and jewelry molds.
Swarm’s Scale investigates the relationship between environment, patterns of nature and utopian society.
It points out our insistent attempts to simulate the organic creation of nature through the use of synthetic materials.
The idea is to shape a new model of society based on environmental resources and the forms of organic processes, rather than the products of fossil fuel and nuclear energy.
The honeycomb as a natural model of geometry and symmetry highlights the labour of an entire swarm to determine the general aspect of their colony.
In the system of the swarm, the agents’ collective behaviour is responsible for the structure of the whole society; it is a consequence of cooperation and organization. There is no centralized control structure dictating how individuals should behave. The interactions between units lead to the emergence of an "intelligent" global behaviour, unknown to the individual agents.
The sculpture can be seen as an architectural scale model of an uninhabited ideal place.
Home made honeycomb, Plastic, wax, mixed media
Beeswax was man's first "plastic" and, for thousands of years, has been used as a modeling material to create sculpture and jewelry molds.
Swarm’s Scale investigates the relationship between environment, patterns of nature and utopian society.
It points out our insistent attempts to simulate the organic creation of nature through the use of synthetic materials.
The idea is to shape a new model of society based on environmental resources and the forms of organic processes, rather than the products of fossil fuel and nuclear energy.
The honeycomb as a natural model of geometry and symmetry highlights the labour of an entire swarm to determine the general aspect of their colony.
In the system of the swarm, the agents’ collective behaviour is responsible for the structure of the whole society; it is a consequence of cooperation and organization. There is no centralized control structure dictating how individuals should behave. The interactions between units lead to the emergence of an "intelligent" global behaviour, unknown to the individual agents.
The sculpture can be seen as an architectural scale model of an uninhabited ideal place.
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