Vanessa Hastedt
Wood Based Additive Manufacturing between Nature and Human. RWTH Aachen (Germany)
'Tiny Forest' are forests in which a variety of plant species grow closely together in a very small space. Ecosystems are formed that are resilient to climate change and promote a pleasant urban climate. The '3D-Habitat-Sculpture' is positioned as a mediating object between wild nature and humans within a 'Tiny Forest'. On the one hand, the sculpture serves to draw people's attention to the 'Tiny Forest' as a wild area, to arouse curiosity and to enter a relationship with nature. On the other hand, it invites insects, especially wild bees, to find a new habitat in it and takes on a habitat function. A symbiosis of '3D-Habitat-Sculpture', people and nature is intended to shed new light on the process of overgrowth and give everyone involved the opportunity to actively participate. For the '3D-Habitat-Sculpture' it means the presentation of its additive production method and the material 'Willoak'. The perspective on additive manufacturing is changing: this production method does not have to be 'high-tech' and alienated, but can also be ecological, sustainable, and directly tangible. The sculpture invites you to touch it and shows signs of weathering and decay over time. Analogous to the growth of the 'Tiny Forest', the sculpture should decay and serve as a nutrient supply for it. For the insects, the sculpture is a dwelling, habitat, food source and a starting point for life in the 'Tiny Forest'. For people, it is an experience station that makes wild nature directly tangible and gives people the chance to relate to nature through the material and form, to perceive themselves, nature and to place themselves in the process of wildness. The aim of the '3D-Habitat-Sculpture' is to classify and integrate wild nature into everyday life to stage a 'wilderness suitable for everyday'.
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