Designing For An Ecosystem: Are We There Yet?
As recently as 2020, Earth’s anthropomass, the human-made non-bio mass (metals, concrete, bricks, glass, plastics) exceeded its living biomass (plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, viruses, humans).
Category: Science
The Complete Olfactory Guide. Marrakech: City Of Smells And Scents
For everyone who has been following my blog or knows me, it is more than clear I am obsessed with smell and the psychological connection it forges between us and memories, places, and fellow humans. Olfactory recollection speaks louder than any photo, visual memory, and, fascinatingly, it works on such a subconscious level that…
How did discourses of science inform the understanding of the body in the early twentieth century?
Due to extensive political reforms and uncertainty, a feeling of social dislocation was created among the early twentieth-century population. In search of stability, people turned to science and it quickly became a mirror and a corrective to society’s lifestyle and body image. As a result, numerous outlines of Darwinism and materialistic biology initially intended to…
DH between Digital and Health
Relying on recent trends and my own observations, I believe that we are experiencing the aftertaste of digitalization: we are now turning back to reality, trying to minimize the time and energy we spend on social media and in front of a screen. Smartphone obsessive behaviour is perceived as rather negative and face-to-face contact is…
A Different Look at a Different Eye
Do you ever feel like a proper alien? It happens to me all the time – misunderstandings, arguments, confused faces, but why does this happen, considering that we feel the same emotions and see the same things? Why is that we are so different?
Made in Space
Ever since we, humans, exist as species, we have used science to create clothing, starting from the Prehistoric Era, when animal skins were used to keep warm, going through the Contemporary Period, when smart technologies are being applied to an increasing number of fashion pieces to the point when the time has come for a…