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Speculative Materials (2024)
STEAMhouse, Powered by BCU
Speculative Materials is a future-oriented research project exploring how materials, technologies, and collective imagination can be used to think beyond extractivist systems. Selected alongside artists, scientists, architects, and designers, Marie-Louise particpated in a programme designed and facilitated by BLAST Studio, Sarah King, and Kaitlin Ferguson, which used material provocations to imagine ecological scenarios 80 years into the future
Through hands-on experimentation with waste composites and biomaterial 3D printing, her contribution investigated post-extractivist legacies and repair-led material futures. Rather than producing fixed objects, the work operated as a form of speculative inquiry, using material processes to question how landscapes, cities, and material cultures might evolve through principles of mutualism, care, and symbiotic coexistence
The project reflects the artists broader interest in speculative ecologies and participatory research, where materials become tools for imagining alternative futures and for rethinking how humans, technologies, and more-than-human systems might thrive together
STEAMhouse, Powered by BCU
Speculative Materials is a future-oriented research project exploring how materials, technologies, and collective imagination can be used to think beyond extractivist systems. Selected alongside artists, scientists, architects, and designers, Marie-Louise particpated in a programme designed and facilitated by BLAST Studio, Sarah King, and Kaitlin Ferguson, which used material provocations to imagine ecological scenarios 80 years into the future
Through hands-on experimentation with waste composites and biomaterial 3D printing, her contribution investigated post-extractivist legacies and repair-led material futures. Rather than producing fixed objects, the work operated as a form of speculative inquiry, using material processes to question how landscapes, cities, and material cultures might evolve through principles of mutualism, care, and symbiotic coexistence
The project reflects the artists broader interest in speculative ecologies and participatory research, where materials become tools for imagining alternative futures and for rethinking how humans, technologies, and more-than-human systems might thrive together
