BY THE END OF MAY — Living Layers

Vertical farming project integrating design, nature, and 3D structures to create adaptable urban ecosystems.

by BASE Milano

Living Layers reimagines vertical farming as living symbiotic ecosystems, combining design, computation and natural intelligence to co-create bioreceptive, low-tech, and adaptable structures nurturing food and biodiversity in cities.Treatinf Nature as an active agent in the design process, geometry to emerges from the needs of plants, while porous 3D printed structures, passively distribute water and attract different life forms. 

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We Will Design 2026 — HELLO, DARKNESS embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.
It is an invitation to recognize the abyss — political, ecological, aesthetic — we’re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.

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