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GIL ANDREI FONTIMAYOR



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03. Elemental Embodiment

Process
• Design Research
• Drawing
• Creative Coding
• Image Making

Instructors
Jiri Oplatek
Ted Davis
Berenice Serra
Dr. Invar-Torre Hollaus

Course
Design Practice III Semester Module, MDes Program, HGK Basel

Location
Basel, Switzerland

Year
2023

Special Thanks
Eunbee Lee
Project Description

Classical elements of nature (earth, air, water and fire) aren’t sentient. But what if they were? How would they see themselves during an ecological disaster?

These animations were built using scientific imagery from NASA and Hydra, a live coding tool.

My framework of thinking and creating cites the works of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn (“How Forests Think”), philosopher Michel Serres (“Biogée”) and researchers Pia Spangenberger, Sonja Maria Geiger & Sarah-Christin Freytag (“Becoming nature: effects of embodying a tree in immersive virtual reality on nature relatedness”).