Making Oddkin
2020 I ANGEWANDTE INNOVATION LAB
PART OF ZUKÜNFTE: MATERIAL UND DESIGN VON MORGEN
PART OF MAY i INTRODUCE: ALIEN AT ANGEWANDTE INNOVATION LAB
AWARDED AT CREATIVES FOR VIENNA
AN ARCHITECTURAL PROPOSAL FOR A MULTI-SPECIES HOME IN 2025
production
interactive website, illustrations, booklet
awarded with
Creatives for Vienna, 2020
Startstipendium, grant for emerging designers, 2019
on show at
FUTURES: Material and Design of Tomorrow, GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig (DE), 2024
Vages Terrain, TU Vienna (AT), 2022
SOLO EXHIBITION, May I introduce: Alienexpress, Fabrikraum (AT) 2021
SOLO EXHIBITION, Suluv Gallery (SRB), 2021
SOLO EXHIBITION, Angewandte Innovation Lab (AT), 2020
scientific advisors and experts
Clemens Bernhofer (architect and supporter)
Francesco Dati (Racoon Enthusiast)
Tanja Duscher (Wildlife Biologist)
Franz Essl (Department for Biodiversity University of Vienna)
Klaus Hackländer (Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management)
Frank-Uwe Michler (Wildlife Biologist)
Gerald Oitzinger (Danube National Park)
Rosemarie Parz-Gollner (Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management)
Robin Sandfort (Wildlife Biologist)
Frank Zachos (Museum of Natural History Vienna)
Sam Zeveloff (Zoologist and Racoon Expert)
funded by
Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria (BMKOES)
Bildrecht GmbH
Making Oddkin - the Home in 2025 is an architectural experiment telling stories of other kinds of kinship and companionship beyond our too well known anthropocentric relationships to the other species on earth. A house in the near future of 2025 becomes a place for unusual encounters. The we live together in community with other species, at best in symbiosis at worst in mutual agreement.
The project draws inspiration from Donna Haraway's writing „Staying with the Trouble“. Haraway coined the term “Making Oddkin” to describe the need for unexpected collaborations and combinations between humans and non-humans.
The Home in 2025 opens up the private home as the manifestation of the famous culture-nature divide and questions our right to solitude in favour of solidarity. The safe spaces we create to protect us from the wilderness become places to reconnect with the wilderness and other creatures. There we work with invasive raccoons on their eating habits to protect endangered species in our wilderness while connecting with pigs through play to learn about our not-so-exceptional human traits. In the domestic setting the borders between culture and nature start to blur -to become a space where connections with other creatures are rewired in unexpected ways.
For the virtual exhibition May I introduce: Alien Alexandra invites visitors to develop an open eye for the other species inhabiting our cities and share their multispecies encounters - be it whether with a crow on the window sill or a house spider in the kitchen corner.
HOW TO BEFRIEND A CROW
THE HOME IN 2025 TREND MAGAZINE
EXHIBITION VIEW, SULUV GALLERY, NOVI SAD (SRB) 2021
SNAPSHOTS FROM A MULTI-SPECIES FAMILY HOME
TRASH BANDITS ENJOYING TREATIES PROVIDED BY HUMAN CAREGIVERS
VR TRAINING WITH A RACCOON