»S AM FM« Ecological Radio curated by the Swiss Architecture Museum Basel (SAM) and Soundcamp Cooperative invited Sigrid Schmeisser to present »Centre to Periphery« which investigates landfills as post-natural landscapes. Three lecture performance consisting of environmental sound and a voice-over are live-streamed from 3 locations in the Basel region.
Under the theme of »Soil Horizons«, Sigrid Schmeisser (PK15), Miguel Teodoro as well as Kate Foster & pantea are responding to three different soil classifications present within the ISRIC World Soil Museum. They will present their respective research on anthropogenic impact on their selected soil type from peat land, to techno- garbicsol to anthrosol.
Created a workshop format around the theme of neophytes (»invasive plant species«) in Europe, building up on the research for the Project (Solidago). The workshop was further combined with an introduction to risograph printing and editorial design, in order to create a joint publication on more-than-human entanglements. Held at Onomatopee, Eindhoven.
Between 2013–2017, the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) group conducted fieldwork at formerly mined brown coal beds in central Jutland, Denmark. BKL seemed to be a banal corner of the Anthropocene—destroyed, homogenous, controlled—where we nonetheless learned to attend to numerous surprises, confusions, and ambiguities. We rarely found what we expected, yet we learned to attune ourselves to the strangeness of an apparently boring landscape. Aura Group consists of Meredith Root-Bernstein, Heather Swanson, Pierre du Plessis, Stine Vestbo, Mathilde Højrup. They invited John Law, Felix Riede, Camilla Berner and Joshua Kim to join them.
Louis Möckel commissioned Peak15 to collaborate on the promotion and vinyl record design for their research project centering around the question of “What is the ecological impact of the noise caused by the production of industrial goods?”. They interviewed several researchers across the fields of bioaccoustics, anthropology and sound-related ecologies. They also captured underwater field recordings with which they commissioned musicians to produce bespoke audio pieces with. All of these were translated and transferred onto the record to be released in 2024.
This is a long-term design & research project that investigates discarding and the role of landfills, as an antiquated disposal method and their entrenchment within contemporary waste management. Constructed ever further on the periphery, landfills have become a »geospatial other«–a sacrificed zone–destined to receive the residues of hazardous waste streams, waste incineration and recycling streams, which to this day enables the centre to flourish and thus necessitates the landfills’ existence. centre-to-periphery.com
Performance at Dutch Design Week, 2023.
Presenting Project Raccogliere at the Design Biennale Venice (June 2023), part of Chiara Famengo’s public program. As well as doing a lecture part of the AA VS Terrain Lab (September 2023).
Peak15 will participate in the Swiss Design Network Conference »Counterparts: Exploring Design Beyond the Human« in October 2022, with the research & design project SOLIDAGO.
We will exhibit the design & research project Raccogliere (Zine & Objects), conceived with independent design duo Daniel Garber & Amalia Magril at the Dutch Design Week. Project Website
POLYCANVAS is a data-driven poster framework, which we adapted for the Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase 2021. The poster displays and arranges content by chance on the canvas–with each content loop being triggered by live data input (Github’s API). For the Showcase we rewrote the framework to enable audio components for each element and add a flexible colour scheme for the client. Due to the sounds being selected by chance out of a library, unique soundscapes are created each time with endless possibility for extension.
The original framework was conceived by Sigrid Schmeisser and based on the brand narrative for Creative Informatics. Apart from being a tool to display content, Schmeisser was curious to investigate what it means to co-design with an algorithm.
Polycanvas Creative Informatics Showcase ’21