COLONIAE - MUNZO vase
Design: Gionata Gatto
Production: JCP Universe, 2022
“All your yesterdays
Make new homes in the future
For slow green giants”
Haiku by Alistair Gentry
Coloniae is a series of artifacts about the relationship between man and plant. The items in the
series are conceived as dwellings for a colony, and as such are created with a predefined form.
However, each structure is designed to interact with the plant it houses, allowing it to grow over
it, redefining its appearance. Over time, the plant will begin to interact with the object through
its roots and leaves, eventually colonising it. In this way, Coloniae rethinks the vase (and other
complementary artifacts) as content rather than container, and the plants as agents in the
definition of a hybrid organism co-participated by human action.
Materials: vase with structure made of perforated aluminium sheets with matt copper, matt
bronze, or matt silver finishing. Central container element in aluminium with matt copper, matt
bronze, or matt silver finishing.
Dimensions (W x D x H): Ø 48cm x 65cm
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