ROOT

2023

status: completed/ongoing/study

3D-printed objects, living materials, digital files

Structures designed to support, expose, and sustain living systems.

*This work explores root systems as both ecological and social metaphors for interdependence and survival.

ROOT is an ongoing project exploring how objects function as systems of care rather than closed containers. Through 3D-printed vessels designed to support plants, cut flowers, and living material, the project makes visible the infrastructures that quietly sustain life in domestic and interior spaces.

The vessels are intentionally incomplete. They do not conceal soil, water, or support mechanisms, but instead expose the dependencies between object, living material, and human participation. In doing so, ROOT reframes everyday acts of tending — watering, pruning, replacing — as visible forms of ecological engagement.

ROOT exists across physical and digital states. Forms are developed as digital structures prior to fabrication, allowing objects to be produced locally or adapted to specific environments. This distributed approach challenges traditional notions of authorship, permanence, and ownership, positioning fabrication as a shared, situational act rather than a centralized process.

The project proposes care as a form of infrastructure — one that is ongoing, relational, and inseparable from use.