Canadian architect wins ?20,000 STARTS prize
Architect and installation artist Andrea Ling received the 2020 STARTS Grand Prize in the category of Artistic Exploration for her Design by Decay, Decay by Design project.
STARTS (S+T+ARTS ? Innovation at the Nexus of Science, Technology, and the ARTS) is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice that effectively implement European policymaking. The focus is on people and projects that contribute to mastering the social, ecological and economic challenges this continent faces.
A yearly competition is held to single out for recognition innovative projects that have what it takes to make a significant impact on economic and social innovation. The two STARTS prizewinners each receive ?20,000 and are prominently featured at Ars Electronica, BOZAR and Waag.
STARTS describes Ling?s project as an ?artistic exploration and art works where appropriation by the arts has a strong potential to influence or alter the use, deployment or perception of technology.?
Design by Decay, Decay by Design is a series of artifacts that exhibit designed decay by illustrating the potential of combining two key-enabling technologies: ICT and biotechnology. They were done for the 2019 Ginkgo Bioworks Creative Residency on how to design a world without waste.
?As an architect and artist, I recognize that most of what I create goes to landfill. If that is the case, let me design waste that I can live with, garbage that retains some desirabilit...
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