Instead of the fortress
there are numerous fortresses now
and various people have keys
2022 09 10
Neo-Metabolism is a planetary research and design practice. Decentralised infrastructures, trustful networks and resistance to the status quo are themes that feature heavily throughout our propositions.
Complementary to our self-initiated work, we seek long-term partnerships with other impact focused organisations. In these collabs, we act as a structure that supports, challenges, and advances the shared project. We provide substantial capacities on-demand: from critical cultural research and analysis, to organisational strategy, identity and narrative development, the design of graphics, objects and spaces, product prototyping, media and thought production.
Once, we were named after Metabolism (新陳代謝), an architectural movement rethinking urban life in post-catastrophe Japan. In response to the “world as factory” perspective of industrial modernity, the Metabolists relied on biological and ecological notions when conceiving architecture and infrastructure. They saw cities not as planned deployments, but as dynamic, living assemblages. They focused on relations, Group Form and change. We find their thinking useful today, as it offers the potential to move from anthropocentric to more-than-human worlding. To us, Metabolism highlights that material, information, and semiotic flows are deeply, wildly interconnected, and constantly in flux. We also follow feminist, new materialist thought, in the understanding that matter is vibrant, nothing is static, and tiny interventions can have a decisive impact on the whole.
As a legal entity, we are a 100% member-owned cooperative under Dutch law. Our core crew is currently based in Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
Neo-Metabolism is a planetary research and design practice. Decentralised infrastructures, trustful networks and resistance to the status quo are themes that feature heavily throughout our propositions.
Complementary to our self-initiated work, we seek long-term partnerships with other impact focused organisations. In these collabs, we act as a structure that supports, challenges, and advances the shared project. We provide substantial capacities on-demand: from critical cultural research and analysis, to organisational strategy, identity and narrative development, the design of graphics, objects and spaces, product prototyping, media and thought production.
Once, we were named after Metabolism (新陳代謝), an architectural movement rethinking urban life in post-catastrophe Japan. In response to the “world as factory” perspective of industrial modernity, the Metabolists relied on biological and ecological notions when conceiving architecture and infrastructure. They saw cities not as planned deployments, but as dynamic, living assemblages. They focused on relations, Group Form and change. We find their thinking useful today, as it offers the potential to move from anthropocentric to more-than-human worlding. To us, Metabolism highlights that material, information, and semiotic flows are deeply, wildly interconnected, and constantly in flux. We also follow feminist, new materialist thought, in the understanding that matter is vibrant, nothing is static, and tiny interventions can have a decisive impact on the whole.
As a legal entity, we are a 100% member-owned cooperative under Dutch law. Our core crew is currently based in Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
CORE CREW
Georgia Kareola
Carsten Goertz
Clint Soren
Ghikhan
MEMBERS
Eric L. Chen
CONTRIBUTORS
(2022) Lynn Gommes, Damian Borovsky Olly Bromham Camila Chebez Shreya De Souza Torben Koerschkes Max Kuwertz Christopher Michael Liminal Vision Zach Whitworth Rue Yi Jack Self Jasper Griepink Kavya Venkatraman, Nicholas Burman, Misha Kakabadze, Maithri Oskar Johanson Frédérique Albert-Bordenave Felix Luke (2021) Kurt Heuvens Francesca Gobeille Marcus Schmickler Brian Shaw Jochen Lauscher Paprika Xu Leonard Schrage Ivano Salonia (2020) Sean Murray Calvin Markus T. Khalifa Alex Singh Danylo, Joe.
CURRENT COLLABS
Biosphere Solar
Leeway Tools
REAL
Duran Lantink
NAP Labs
Living Systems
Georgia Kareola
Carsten Goertz
Clint Soren
Ghikhan
MEMBERS
Eric L. Chen
CONTRIBUTORS
(2022) Lynn Gommes, Damian Borovsky Olly Bromham Camila Chebez Shreya De Souza Torben Koerschkes Max Kuwertz Christopher Michael Liminal Vision Zach Whitworth Rue Yi Jack Self Jasper Griepink Kavya Venkatraman, Nicholas Burman, Misha Kakabadze, Maithri Oskar Johanson Frédérique Albert-Bordenave Felix Luke (2021) Kurt Heuvens Francesca Gobeille Marcus Schmickler Brian Shaw Jochen Lauscher Paprika Xu Leonard Schrage Ivano Salonia (2020) Sean Murray Calvin Markus T. Khalifa Alex Singh Danylo, Joe.
CURRENT COLLABS
Biosphere Solar
Leeway Tools
REAL
Duran Lantink
NAP Labs
Living Systems
WORLD BUILDING ENGINE FOR THE YEWTH.
Vessels of Hope –
A report on Seedpods
2020/21 REEL