Filamentation/ Spatial Sensing

How can an exhibition (space) become research in habitat? In a unique building from 1790 ornamented with symbols for connection and empathy between species, we treat the exhibition space as an exhibit - between void, matter, and interpretation. Space can trace and leave a trace; it is something. For an exhibition to become a research method towards a new culture of material, the visitors' awareness becomes the active matter itself, like the »emancipated spectator« of J. Rancière. In textiles, the void, the space between filaments, is as essential for the whole as the material that appears as solid - it is analog and virtual. Beyond geometrical space, artists, architects, and craftspeople historically use textile techniques to unfold the ›other‹ space. During the exhibition, we further developed techniques and prototypes in the frame of the interdisciplinary research in textile techniques on the architectural scale for future habitats accessible simultaneously physically and in VR. Like lichens on the rock, we used them to trace the spatial and metabolic negotiations between bodies, objects, and spaces.