Anne-Sofie Belling

Newcastle University | NCL · School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape

Bio-Futures for Transplanetary Habitats (BFfTH) is a Special Interest Group within the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment that aims to explore and enable interdisciplinary research on transplanetary habitats and habitats within extreme environments through an emphasis on the biosocial and biotechnological relations. BFfTH organized the...

How can biotechnologies and biomaterials shape and sustain habitats in extreme and space environments? Biotechnologies and biomaterials have been considered essential to the design of habitats in extreme environments such as outer space. Recent advancements in biotechnological research present novel ways in which materials, artefacts and architectu...

This work-in-progress paper describes an investigation into the somaesthetic qualities of exploring posthuman strategies and relations with technology. This was done through bodystorming and physical prototyping, casting soft robots directly onto the body. Through a Research-through-Design process, a soft robotic prototype, Nautica, was developed....

Through collaborative media arts practice we explore texture morphing soft robotics as an artistic medium of expression. We present an installation, Homo Viridis, that features a soft robotic interface developed to mediate signals between a vascular plant and a human body. The exposition paper discusses how Homo Viridis stages a situation of hybrid...

This thesis describes an investigation into the somaesthetic qualities of exploring posthuman strategies and relations with technology. This was done through bodystorming and physical prototyping, casting soft robots directly onto the body. Through a Research-through-Design process, a soft robotic prototype, Nautica, was developed. This prototype i...