Hardware Stories is a catalogue of normally eccentric solutions, tools, and routines to "diy" modify or manufacture new floor components, that encourage beneficial more-than-humans complementarities at both micro and macro scale.
The floor, with its patchwork of materials, processes, practices, and ritualities, attempts to explore the potential of qualities inspired and required by a broad notion of cohabitation.
Those components, which are both mundane and exceptional, relate to a quirky set of diy tools to make and maintain them and suggest the establishment of curious connections, supported by a condition of familiar estrangement.
They fundamentally question which societal values the physical manifestation of building components hold, and what world we want them to reflect and construct.
Hardware Stories is made by Animali Domestici (Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi), Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch and Lynn Hyun Kieffer. It has been developed with the support of the Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond).
Animali Domestici (www.animalidomestici.eu), is a design practice based in Aarhus and Bangkok with an active interest in ecology in its wider sense, that has been investigating alternative inclusive assemblages of users and materialities, proposing multi-species explorations with an empirical and hands-on approach. Founded in Bangkok in 2017 by Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi, Animali Domestici is focused on the development of speculative design projects, products, and processes, at the intersection between ecological and economic systems. Its work has been featured at Beijing Design Week, Milan Triennale, Bangkok Biennial, Seoul Biennale, NTU CCA Singapore, Oslo Triennale, and Venice Biennale among others. Alicia and Antonio are Assistant Professors (Teaching) at Aarhus Architecture School in Aarhus, Denmark, and they previously both held the position of year/course coordinator from 2016 to 2020, at INDA, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch is a fabricator, architectural designer and tool enthusiast. He has previously taught and researched at the University of Innsbruck, SCi-Arc, the Royal Danish Academy, and is currently engaged at the Arkitektskolen Aarhus. Here he teaches workshops for computational design and making, attends to the school's robots and 3D printers, maintaining existing and developing new fabrication effectors and workflows.
His passion for tools for the production and automation of architecture, as well as everyday objects, embraces crowdsourced and DIY methods, aiming to find mechanical, virtual, and actual solutions to contribute to a more inclusive, sustainably built future.
Lynn Hyun Kieffer is a PhD fellow at the Aarhus School of architecture with a background in computational architecture and digital fabrication technologies. She has an interest in the programming of architectural material systems through digital tools and methods and currently explores a symbiotic relationship between biological and digital technology, their method of communication, and the ability to parametrically actuate and engage with this natural behaviour. Lynn holds degrees from the University of Innsbruck and the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, and has worked for research environments including CITA.
(Centre for Information Technology and Architecture), Studio Kinch, and the Aarhus School of Architecture.
The floor, with its patchwork of materials, processes, practices, and ritualities, attempts to explore the potential of qualities inspired and required by a broad notion of cohabitation.
Those components, which are both mundane and exceptional, relate to a quirky set of diy tools to make and maintain them and suggest the establishment of curious connections, supported by a condition of familiar estrangement.
They fundamentally question which societal values the physical manifestation of building components hold, and what world we want them to reflect and construct.
Hardware Stories is made by Animali Domestici (Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi), Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch and Lynn Hyun Kieffer. It has been developed with the support of the Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond).
Animali Domestici (www.animalidomestici.eu), is a design practice based in Aarhus and Bangkok with an active interest in ecology in its wider sense, that has been investigating alternative inclusive assemblages of users and materialities, proposing multi-species explorations with an empirical and hands-on approach. Founded in Bangkok in 2017 by Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi, Animali Domestici is focused on the development of speculative design projects, products, and processes, at the intersection between ecological and economic systems. Its work has been featured at Beijing Design Week, Milan Triennale, Bangkok Biennial, Seoul Biennale, NTU CCA Singapore, Oslo Triennale, and Venice Biennale among others. Alicia and Antonio are Assistant Professors (Teaching) at Aarhus Architecture School in Aarhus, Denmark, and they previously both held the position of year/course coordinator from 2016 to 2020, at INDA, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch is a fabricator, architectural designer and tool enthusiast. He has previously taught and researched at the University of Innsbruck, SCi-Arc, the Royal Danish Academy, and is currently engaged at the Arkitektskolen Aarhus. Here he teaches workshops for computational design and making, attends to the school's robots and 3D printers, maintaining existing and developing new fabrication effectors and workflows.
His passion for tools for the production and automation of architecture, as well as everyday objects, embraces crowdsourced and DIY methods, aiming to find mechanical, virtual, and actual solutions to contribute to a more inclusive, sustainably built future.
Lynn Hyun Kieffer is a PhD fellow at the Aarhus School of architecture with a background in computational architecture and digital fabrication technologies. She has an interest in the programming of architectural material systems through digital tools and methods and currently explores a symbiotic relationship between biological and digital technology, their method of communication, and the ability to parametrically actuate and engage with this natural behaviour. Lynn holds degrees from the University of Innsbruck and the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, and has worked for research environments including CITA.
(Centre for Information Technology and Architecture), Studio Kinch, and the Aarhus School of Architecture.