{"id":71,"date":"2013-09-12T21:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T21:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/organicism\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-09-12T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T21:53:55","slug":"radiant-soil-art-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/organicism\/2013\/09\/12\/radiant-soil-art-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiant Soil Art Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Philip Beesley : Radiant Soil \/ Espace Fondation EDF\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNZwrC_IuX0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Philip Beesley, the creative mind of <i>Radiant Soil<\/i>, discusses the conceptual and scientific basis for the installation he describes as a \u201cnear-living architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pNZwrC_IuX0#t=391\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pNZwrC_IuX0#t=391<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Designed by Canadian-based architect and artist Philip Beesly, Radiant Soil is an art installation designed to test biomemetic techniques and biological processes which could lead to an architecture that is nearly living. In taking a hylozoic approach, which Beesly describes as &#8220;life coming out of material&#8221;, components such as metal, polymer and glass are translated biomemetically to track human motion and respond to our movements. In a broad sense, the installation aims to mimic a functioning biological system which can interact with people. In a micro sense, the project defines several suspended filter layers which contain a &#8220;near-living carbon capture metabolism.&#8221; Equipped with a shape-memory system, the individual components have the capability to react to movement, causing an interdependent chain reaction of results based on the input of human motion as stimuli. The basic premise here is that this experiment could become a possible future for organic architecture; one in which building systems can respond to certain factors such as environmental control or human ergonomics.\u00a0 It should be seen not as a method of building production, but rather as a medium of production.\u00a0 It could be an architectural agent through which spatial factors of comfort, performability and control could be implemented within the production of architecture, rather than producing the architecture itself by its own processes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><i>&#8212; Andrew Scalisi<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>RESEARCH RESOURCES<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Grdadolnik, Helena. \u201cIt\u2019s Alive!\u201d Canadian Interiors 47, no. 8 (December 2010): 20\u201322.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/docview\/833844756?accountid=14214\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/docview\/833844756?accountid=14214<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This short article gives insights into Beesley\u2019s vision for what architecture could be through a hylozoic approach: one that responds to light, heat and perhaps even human mood.\u00a0 \u00a0One important aspect to note is that the installation is not entirely predictable, in that it does not always respond accordingly to human motion in a timely fashion.\u00a0 This, however, reinforces the idea of it\u2019s being \u201calive\u201d rather than being simply programmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhilip Beesley Architect Inc.\u201d Accessed August 29, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com\/sculptures\/1218_Radiant-Soil_Paris\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com\/sculptures\/1218_Radiant-Soil_Paris\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This project descriptor emphasizes Beesley\u2019s idea of the hyolozoic.\u00a0 He views even the most inanimate of objects to contain such richness of life that they could pervade the process of architecture in extremely progressive and interactive ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Bizarre Installation Mimics a Real Biological Ecosystem.\u201d Accessed August 29, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-bizarre-installation-mimics-a-real-biological-ecos-1148097140?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-bizarre-installation-mimics-a-real-biological-ecos-1148097140?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blog post can be described as \u201cBeesley\u2019s hyolozoism for dummies.\u201d\u00a0 It is a playful and graspable explanation of the architect\u2019s science project: \u201cthe installation mimics a living, breathing biological system that actually interacts with people\u2026make what you will of the project&#8217;s deeper meaning, but to us, it&#8217;s totally amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip 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