PERNILLA OHRSTEDT STUDIO

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    • Museum of London
    • Vitra Workspace
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    • Dezeen Office
    • Cadogan Café
    • Future Memory Pavilion
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    • Storefront for Art & Architecture
    • Ring Dome, New York
    • Ring Dome, Milan
  • Installation
    • Antipodium S/S 2013
    • Cloud
    • Colette Clouds
    • Glitch Space
    • Topshop Unique S/S 2014
    • Topshop Showspace S/S 2014
  • Exhibition Design
    • Beazley Designs of the Year 2019
    • V&A Videogames
    • Vitra Work Orgatec 2016
    • International Fashion Showcase 2014
    • Atlas of the Unbuilt World
    • Stazione Futuro
    • White House Redux
  • Object
    • Silhouette Series
    • Argon Stars
    • Atlas Stool
    • Antipodium Combs S/S 13
    • Heracles Postcard
    • Learning from Kilburn
    • Light Well Table
    • Iconoclastic Plastic Chair
    • Pandora’s Comb
  • Publication
    • Hylozoic Ground
  • Contact

Hylozoic Ground

Canada’s entry to the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, Hylozoic Ground, was an immersive, interactive environment that moved and breathed around its viewers. The collaborative work, conceived by architect and sculptor Philip Beesley and directed by Pernilla Ohrstedt, is made of hundreds of thousands of lightweight components. The pieces are digitally fabricated, fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors and assembled by hand.

Hylozoic Ground was fabricated over six months and took a team of five designers and 20 volunteers one month to install. Pernilla Ohrstedt also co-edited, along with Hayley Isaac, the Hylozoic Ground book. The book contains detailed design documents and essays by collaborators, theorists and designers including Michelle Addington, Rachel Armstrong, Rob Gorbet, Eric Haldenby, Geoff Manaugh, Detlef Mertins, Neil Spiller, and Cary Wolfe.

Artist: Philip Beesley
Project Director: Pernilla Ohrstedt
Editor: Pernilla Ohrstedt & Haylee Isaacs (Graphics)
Location: Canada Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale
Dates: March 2010 – December 2010