LUDOVICA GALLEANI D’AGLIANO 
                                                                          


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 @SYNTIA_CAM Research & Workshop 
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 @SYNTIA_CAM Project 
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 (S_C) AR Performance 
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 SEP _Speculative Design 
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 VIDEOEX Festival 
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 NEW INTIMACITY _Trend Map 
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 THE WAITING ROOM _Exhibition 
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 FRAMELAND _Editorial 
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 SUSTAINABILITY WEEK ZURICH 
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SEP - Soil Exploration Program

Work: Research, Video-editing, Branding, 
Graphic Design, Performance, Photography
Year: 2022

  What if we could look at soil with hope and fascination, the same fascination we have when looking at the first moon landing or the hope we hold for the discovery of life forms on Mars? Microbes in the soil are in fact truly alien to us as we don’t know the great majority of them. By using an analogy to space exploration, different questions about how we perceive soil research open up.
In a context of a global antimicrobial resistance and ecological crisis, the Soil Exploration Program (S.E.P) is a fictional organization that aims to bring focus down to the ground. The goal of this project is to push soil exploration forward and to show the possible implications of new microbial discoveries.

99% of soil bacteria are not cultivable in labs, therefore those microbes cannot be isolated and researched in detail. These represents not only a great lack of understanding of the biodiversity of planet Earth, but also a huge potential to solve existential problems that humanity is facing today and in the near future. In a collaboration with researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), this project focuses on improving upon the state-of-the-art in soil microbe cultivation by developing a functioning device, and further theorizing on possible applications of this technology, as well as possible approaches to involve interested citizens in the process of soil exploration. Date of Fundation: 2022
Honorary Members: 
Ludovica Galleani d’Agliano; 
Armin Arscherbrenner; 
Aurelian Ammon.
Collaborators: WSL
SOIL EXPLORATION KIT

The device has been designed to be used in the context of the lab, thereby supporting current cutting-edge research. At the same time, it is also meant to be appropriate for home-use as part of a citizen science toolkit, enabling amateurs to support scientific research and take ownership of knowledge of bacterial biodiversity. To make exploration of the uncultured accessible, this toolkit would contain all necessary tools and instructions to create a sterile working environment at home, as well as some simple tests which could enable screening of unknown bacteria species for novel functions. Once interesting strains are identified, citizen scientists could then pass them on to professionals, or take action themselves.


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