Create to Regenerate suggests a shift from a human-centred to a life-centred design perspective. The video installation aims to promote a new design paradigm with a shift in focus from the human scale and human preferences and needs to a life- or planet-centred view, with design decisions driven by a goal of a balanced co-existence with the other species and life forms with whom we share the planet. That calls for new forms of perception and understanding and challenges our customary ideas about what is material and what sorts of matter have value in design. It also enables a rediscovery of matter itself, of the very substance of the earth, the planet and materiality.

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Video installation, originally exhibited as a triptych at Designmuseum Denmark as part of the exhibition Future is Present, June 2023 – January 2024. The version shown is an adapted edition for online display. Work developed by Ida Engholm and Mads Quistgaard with contributions from Merete Pryds Helle (text),

Linn Henrichson, Allan Kristiansen (concept, art direction and production), Arthur Stein (creative tech set up at Designmuseum Denmark), Per Henriksen (video) and Nils Vinding (music).