https://louizeharries.com louize harries Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:41:54 +0000 https://louizeharries.com en https://louizeharries.com/Home Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:41:53 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/Home Louize Harries/Studio 0ty https://louizeharries.com/about-1 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:41:54 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/about-1 AboutI am a multidisciplinary artist/designer maker, writer and material explorer, with a background in fashion and textiles.Studio 0ty was created as a research vehicle and way to investigate the big and small questions of mending the human/nature break, how made artifacts, soft materials and site-specific experiments can function as research tools, field study aids or habitat interventions. This work generates data, offering ways to observe, record and engage in our immediate environment and non-human neighbours. &nbsp; I have taught undergrad and post-grad in several institution over the past 10+ years including UAL where i am now. I am a researcher in the field at CRAB studios&nbsp; Contact hello at louizeharries.com Why?/Manifesto for Studio 0ty Alot of my working life has been in fashion and textiles, the intersectional issues (enviromental and social justice) surrounding the fashion industry and the making of materials are well documented,During my MA i did a deep dive into the human behavior factors and systems driving ballooning consumption which needs to be tackled alongside materal waste and inequality. But i kept circling back to the disconnect to our own enviroment and deeply broken relationships to the other species/ non-humans that we inhabit this planet with which keep us alive, fed, breathing and clothed. That disconnect is a hyper-object and is driving&nbsp; most crisis faced today, The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world with declining biodiversity and a deepening disrespct or understanding of the environment and our place within it,&nbsp;The loss of habitat and species is rapid – We cannot fight for what we don’t know or love so this work is an attempt to look outside my literal front door and document what still surrounds us at this point in time, and to offer material, poetic and practical ways to mediate relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. Positioned between art, design, making, research and citizen science, Studio 0ty invites curiosity, attention, and entanglement, offering playful but serious interventions into how we observe, imagine, co-create, and reimagine other ways of being. &nbsp; https://louizeharries.com/Raised-bed-residence Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:37:26 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/Raised-bed-residence RAISED BED RESIDENCE <img width="1080" height="1279" width_o="1080" height_o="1279" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3ba7e219c1591420ab47774f727b8d2b9cb9a42c69ed4978595a3c87790f44d/phonto.JPG" data-mid="239738046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3ba7e219c1591420ab47774f727b8d2b9cb9a42c69ed4978595a3c87790f44d/phonto.JPG" /> An ongoing project, A chance to connect and colaborate with friends and fellow creatives that needs or wants a mini crop growing for what ever reason - An exploration of sharing land, labour and time, the raised bed at mill gardens is the site -the processes, sucess n failures of growing are documented through images and whatapps chats....the time period dictated by the plant -outcome often unknown. <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d013c512edad009b97f42d19c85af6c3df4986ffb43d53d461bbd54597cd94f4/phonto-2.JPG" data-mid="239880417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d013c512edad009b97f42d19c85af6c3df4986ffb43d53d461bbd54597cd94f4/phonto-2.JPG" /> <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cc4bbe52bb651193500d5f3ed1e8ae5fc29a6f0501965fa4c14c91a4283dc51/phonto-copy.JPG" data-mid="239738050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cc4bbe52bb651193500d5f3ed1e8ae5fc29a6f0501965fa4c14c91a4283dc51/phonto-copy.JPG" /> Summer 2025- Craig Lawrence and dye plants. https://louizeharries.com/Homes-within-homes Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:40:45 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/Homes-within-homes Homes within Homes<img width="2915" height="3728" width_o="2915" height_o="3728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78441c0d66f1724f5d091ec6d0067c92b577d0187cef4991f4d8f1498fdbd1ad/homes.jpg" data-mid="239790992" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78441c0d66f1724f5d091ec6d0067c92b577d0187cef4991f4d8f1498fdbd1ad/homes.jpg" />Decline of habitat is a problem- mostly human caused, An exploration into making space, getting to know, and welcoming in our non human neighbours. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e39dde67fee4bf13806752116ab9246c6eefdde2814590ead647fa2293ae089/IMG_0294.jpeg" data-mid="239880425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e39dde67fee4bf13806752116ab9246c6eefdde2814590ead647fa2293ae089/IMG_0294.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5201fd4e752051ba4be7056ac650571d4b55d0f492bc8eb5ebe6cbc64e6afb85/IMG_0301.jpeg" data-mid="239835854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5201fd4e752051ba4be7056ac650571d4b55d0f492bc8eb5ebe6cbc64e6afb85/IMG_0301.jpeg" /> A glove for a wasp- an offering to the wasp population, After putting my hand into a gardening gloves over the last few years and getting repeatedly stung, i crocheted a glove as an alternative space for them to hang out in. Shaping informed by wasp nest and burrows. Crochet in single ply blk roving. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f38ade32cfdcfe017ce38810a4b3dfcdf811833b98bddb8da281a2b3640884e0/IMG_1025.jpeg" data-mid="239836555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f38ade32cfdcfe017ce38810a4b3dfcdf811833b98bddb8da281a2b3640884e0/IMG_1025.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/101d1ff366bbb0e942adc14b1af443bcbec4b3c791d876a4718630a87ac1af9d/phonto-2.JPG" data-mid="239836556" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/101d1ff366bbb0e942adc14b1af443bcbec4b3c791d876a4718630a87ac1af9d/phonto-2.JPG" /> Birds builders yard.-Recent research shows that bird mortality rates are raising from the use of chemically treated pet fur used to line the nests.....I’ve used a paleolithic textile technique called knottless netting to create bags for untreated fur moss and leaves, and left around the garden. https://louizeharries.com/The-tools-of-observation Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:39:26 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/The-tools-of-observation The tools of observation<img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bae63c54379e2102f8226bb17f3e462ff6f6c7e602d0ba548a2e120b8b9d2264/tools.jpg" data-mid="239831069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bae63c54379e2102f8226bb17f3e462ff6f6c7e602d0ba548a2e120b8b9d2264/tools.jpg" /> ways of seeing and looking - from wonky field notes to building contraptions these objects and documented observations are designed to aid in the exploration and getting to know of all the other species we share space with. <img width="1620" height="2160" width_o="1620" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a869bc1253e533f5e2bfce8dbd00f26189a6256294fcc07c54f13c600e64ab5/face-side.jpg" data-mid="239832360" border="0" 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data-mid="239832730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6afdf3fdffd382fab6b01b11adca9656558bd1f825d15cd8aa8ad4f5aeef80c/jug-face..jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f614fd084963813a3d1c7d138f5fa76b1acdf841864d534ff709075d7d1fa78a/sun-face.jpeg" data-mid="239832731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f614fd084963813a3d1c7d138f5fa76b1acdf841864d534ff709075d7d1fa78a/sun-face.jpeg" /> Moth trapping using wine roping - methods of attracting pollinating night moths machine knited plaits- and wine sugar mixture. <img width="2958" height="4003" width_o="2958" height_o="4003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e2f1954caee86182cbfbdf6f0be0847b5b113f3a802cf709402882ac50e15d0/wfs-bee-nest.jpeg" data-mid="239831627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e2f1954caee86182cbfbdf6f0be0847b5b113f3a802cf709402882ac50e15d0/wfs-bee-nest.jpeg" /> <img 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e740328c46b601ba16e91d3f3f4e58b7a8bd4b761034ec913ad54baa7f2f2a4/wfs-fledling.jpeg" data-mid="239831630" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e740328c46b601ba16e91d3f3f4e58b7a8bd4b761034ec913ad54baa7f2f2a4/wfs-fledling.jpeg" /> <img width="3027" height="4191" width_o="3027" height_o="4191" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3116add32b2ab892496a7c46eab9baf24b5acf88aec1ae33dc03cfac8fdcb511/WFS-RAT-.jpeg" data-mid="239831633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3116add32b2ab892496a7c46eab9baf24b5acf88aec1ae33dc03cfac8fdcb511/WFS-RAT-.jpeg" /> Wonky field notes. https://louizeharries.com/Seedy-encounters Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:37:11 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/Seedy-encounters SEEDY ENCOUNTERS <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09980ed8c58b36a4902ffd33adea500c35e240c2c2d5f5a8c06dc2b09b0627d1/phonto-copy.JPG" data-mid="239793549" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09980ed8c58b36a4902ffd33adea500c35e240c2c2d5f5a8c06dc2b09b0627d1/phonto-copy.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56cc70e40987f3890a5f14f0c6db5e185d1d72264d3c7108180d1d1e78209ffe/IMG_9820.JPG" data-mid="239793591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56cc70e40987f3890a5f14f0c6db5e185d1d72264d3c7108180d1d1e78209ffe/IMG_9820.JPG" /> <img width="2135" height="1680" width_o="2135" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4717bdad6963a3cd533427eac71fda0b8b14522a08fbf329eff05c12f9065b99/phonto.jpg" data-mid="239793551" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4717bdad6963a3cd533427eac71fda0b8b14522a08fbf329eff05c12f9065b99/phonto.jpg" /> <img width="1587" height="1680" width_o="1587" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7877e1cb28d34b1f2e7d37550d35fe8609fde796955cdbc579fe3932e74e9910/IMG_9933.jpg" data-mid="239793590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7877e1cb28d34b1f2e7d37550d35fe8609fde796955cdbc579fe3932e74e9910/IMG_9933.jpg" /> A birthday ritual, an offering , a set of bird seed sculptures depicting some of the factors in bird population loss (overconsumption = brand signs, intensive farming = tractors) A harvest festival for the birds....and an observation tool This assemblage was left out during the month of October 2024 and the vistors to the table were documented via wildlife cams and recorded. https://louizeharries.com/Feral-Landscapes Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:37:36 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/Feral-Landscapes Feral landscapes <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08efc950eb0c16ff6a01d7e475939a86d40fd46522d3bd102666b80727a8c037/phonto-2.jpg" data-mid="239834894" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08efc950eb0c16ff6a01d7e475939a86d40fd46522d3bd102666b80727a8c037/phonto-2.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92e91990075bbdd09ec9c27331243d7c27bd80c75961e2f9e6a537302c85267f/pink-tyre-1.jpg" data-mid="239834895" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92e91990075bbdd09ec9c27331243d7c27bd80c75961e2f9e6a537302c85267f/pink-tyre-1.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5036ace46affbc36d3cf10c3ca84603587419a5a6a8d4cdb447ed7035eee6813/feral-gin.jpg" data-mid="239834893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5036ace46affbc36d3cf10c3ca84603587419a5a6a8d4cdb447ed7035eee6813/feral-gin.jpg" /> Feral Landscapes - Are the betwixed spaces of disturbance from industrial processes/capitalocene and mixed with non-human activitys. Feral bullace gin-Bullace&nbsp;berries (like Sloes no thorns) foragaed from a mini scrubland that sits at the side of intensively farmed fields and a concrete apron where hay stores are wrapped in black plastic, the edges containing dumped metal agricultural machinery and old tyres. This pocket of land contains the largest crops of bullace berries in the area. Living in the counrtyside is still haunted by the images of a green and plesant land -bucolic idyll of a landowning fantasy, The reality is a heavy industrialized area, worked by people on low wages and precarious seasonal work. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e6a6cd1373eecbc90a5a638270b85c73c6f76f64c8f8bf2fc682eb4b3f89e54/IMG_2716.jpeg" data-mid="239880976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e6a6cd1373eecbc90a5a638270b85c73c6f76f64c8f8bf2fc682eb4b3f89e54/IMG_2716.jpeg" /> <img width="3744" height="2767" width_o="3744" height_o="2767" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c23a4930566342dad68d1a14807be220580367ae8b9e3db212c31d506e33e43/spud-3-copy.jpg" data-mid="239880979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c23a4930566342dad68d1a14807be220580367ae8b9e3db212c31d506e33e43/spud-3-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2833" height="4032" width_o="2833" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ffadc2de8a8eeb306144808ea875c2913a036671fbf7d5a58f9866cd8e5207b/potatoe-field-jpg.jpg" data-mid="239880978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ffadc2de8a8eeb306144808ea875c2913a036671fbf7d5a58f9866cd8e5207b/potatoe-field-jpg.jpg" /> <img width="2833" height="4032" width_o="2833" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/210ea41b09010f893ffd55e92a95b456f5116bebcefd4c2a02d2ea7b68b0f18b/field-candle-6.jpg" data-mid="239880975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/210ea41b09010f893ffd55e92a95b456f5116bebcefd4c2a02d2ea7b68b0f18b/field-candle-6.jpg" /> <img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58fb7917d73b46e075890f60f3b233cbb31f49f6772f81d70f70a1831a107044/lucky-spud.gif" data-mid="239880977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/58fb7917d73b46e075890f60f3b233cbb31f49f6772f81d70f70a1831a107044/lucky-spud.gif" /> <img width="1242" height="1552" width_o="1242" height_o="1552" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d84d27c0c15492ccf950c273ed3a2abcfe616e411854fe10e76e093621b3cab/3DCEA8FB-BA43-49F9-A1D1-2779809FE9A9-copy.JPG" data-mid="239880974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d84d27c0c15492ccf950c273ed3a2abcfe616e411854fe10e76e093621b3cab/3DCEA8FB-BA43-49F9-A1D1-2779809FE9A9-copy.JPG" /> <img width="746" height="848" width_o="746" height_o="848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cad60bcabbe19ea1e46223b9e79a5394e8ee37e4cd4cc96ceeed1ff1a4df93bd/yellow-spud.jpg" data-mid="239880980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/746/i/cad60bcabbe19ea1e46223b9e79a5394e8ee37e4cd4cc96ceeed1ff1a4df93bd/yellow-spud.jpg" /> Lucky potato-Investigations into human potatao relationships, from worship and orginal cultivation by the Incas to saving famine struck Europians in one century to being used a cover story in killing populations via colonial stealing they’ve had a wild ride. Geotagged potaoes -Collected spuds left after harvesting, made dried into starch and made into bioplastic spuds with marked with exact locations Potato Power-&nbsp; “This is a sad hoax for industrial man no longer eats potatoes made from solar energy- now he eats potatoes partly made of oil” Howard Odum My house looks out onto potato fields - the green expanse fools you into thinking your in “nature”- but these monoculture crops are a heavy industry site // Howard Odum author of “environment power and society” thought high yield crops like spuds only existed in a symbiotic relationship with fossil fuels -without the propping of intensive farming they wouldn’t survive - Odum was the pioneer of using electrical circuit diagrams showing the net energy used in agroecology- linking cybernetics , computing and ecosystems-After harvesting, excess spuds are scattered around the edges of the field- Seeing them through Odum 👀 as units of oil and energy they are proceesed into bioplastic to make candle sticks. https://louizeharries.com/My-first-subconscious-shopper Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:55:42 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/My-first-subconscious-shopper MY FIRST SUBCONSCIOUS SHOPPER <img width="1240" height="1754" width_o="1240" height_o="1754" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f91c5ea327adaa05371688a85699590ac052acb0fa33a06380f7c07c39a8bd7d/louize_harries-image12.jpg" data-mid="32291058" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f91c5ea327adaa05371688a85699590ac052acb0fa33a06380f7c07c39a8bd7d/louize_harries-image12.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/628e77d0fc12de9402e1ee65a0d3165d983a82725446d8efe68c143e917f40cc/louize_harries-image3.jpg" data-mid="32291088" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/628e77d0fc12de9402e1ee65a0d3165d983a82725446d8efe68c143e917f40cc/louize_harries-image3.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3595450e8932f8f480fa080a0edfc759c1f4876bb9f5ca4dc4639ee5bf202401/louize_harries-image4.jpg" data-mid="32291098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3595450e8932f8f480fa080a0edfc759c1f4876bb9f5ca4dc4639ee5bf202401/louize_harries-image4.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/611d9ef84560a03c3ad4a1cec2a78155d713882d6e76d938b70996ca3997ef59/louize_harries-image11.jpg" data-mid="32291114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/611d9ef84560a03c3ad4a1cec2a78155d713882d6e76d938b70996ca3997ef59/louize_harries-image11.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="720" width_o="960" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f97a21d251a46ef9c11e279f8d1ddb019abe3fb5f6223427a287006e00667364/brain-scan.jpg" data-mid="32721089" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/f97a21d251a46ef9c11e279f8d1ddb019abe3fb5f6223427a287006e00667364/brain-scan.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a8b39bd53b5c6a3bf2018719ddf50cb3f6269e625a288aa720a86818100054a/P1019193.jpg" data-mid="35963825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a8b39bd53b5c6a3bf2018719ddf50cb3f6269e625a288aa720a86818100054a/P1019193.jpg" /><img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a900aa63a9805fec78879719d39c0c2acc96ac4acbca183fa7e57458df45a22b/P1019195.jpg" data-mid="35963936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a900aa63a9805fec78879719d39c0c2acc96ac4acbca183fa7e57458df45a22b/P1019195.jpg" /> On a visit to a textile reprocessing plant, Pat,the lady showing me around pulled two dress off the giant conveyor belts that wound around the factory, ‘look,’ she said ‘these have the shop labels still on them, every day more and more unworn garments end up in our textile bins, often i wonder why?’ It was estimated in 2007 that the average person was exposed to over 3000 brand images and messages per day, There is now a myriad interconnected ways of collecting our data and using this information to create very detailed pictures of us as consumers, so we are living in highly curated advertised bubbles,which is helping us to ignore the human and environmental cost of our consumption…. Advertising has long sought to reach out to try affect our subconscious decision making // we take this as given // but how is this changing now that the technology is? and what about technologies being developed, especially BCI or brain computer interface a rapidly expanding field with much investment, estimates from Grand View research value this market&nbsp; at 22.7 bn by 2020. The increasing interest in the commercial aspects of BCI has caused concern among professional bio-ethicists who have published papers looking to examine the issues surrounding human rights and possible breaches by these new and emerging technologies …. My subconscious shopper seeks to explore these issues, by working with open source biosensing hardwear/softwear i made EEG headsets for children that collects neural data for marketing purposes….this product was taken to a leading technology lawyer and with the correct consent forms verified as legal if i wanted to take it to market…. I wanted to make such a product to engage in conversations around technology ethics,and concepts of free will in a consumer society . https://louizeharries.com/Red-rains-of-change Sun, 04 Feb 2018 21:56:23 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/Red-rains-of-change RED RAINS OF CHANGE. <img width="818" height="1070" width_o="818" height_o="1070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c07cabb7ad763063f8c35a18b9a02258f0898c02b585f376fd0d379b4b509734/red-rains--katie-May-Boyd-Louize-Harries.jpg" data-mid="32620089" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/818/i/c07cabb7ad763063f8c35a18b9a02258f0898c02b585f376fd0d379b4b509734/red-rains--katie-May-Boyd-Louize-Harries.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a399d4fa6c2550e7aea0c73275dc5d3f740a62fbb972bbb4fdbfae834da7a2d/Drone-Trafalgo-square-.jpg" data-mid="34479404" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a399d4fa6c2550e7aea0c73275dc5d3f740a62fbb972bbb4fdbfae834da7a2d/Drone-Trafalgo-square-.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b06ef5c22946e181463b338805f9259d4ad8d1d3cdb52350e041ee5a7a1af93/red-rain-drone-.jpg" data-mid="34479975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b06ef5c22946e181463b338805f9259d4ad8d1d3cdb52350e041ee5a7a1af93/red-rain-drone-.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a399d4fa6c2550e7aea0c73275dc5d3f740a62fbb972bbb4fdbfae834da7a2d/Drone-Trafalgo-square-.jpg" data-mid="34479404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a399d4fa6c2550e7aea0c73275dc5d3f740a62fbb972bbb4fdbfae834da7a2d/Drone-Trafalgo-square-.jpg" /> <img width="818" height="1091" width_o="818" height_o="1091" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7948af9966647b696bd470a1a36d639d5a07a03822c152430959d7d6122daf97/Red-rains-2--Katie-May-Boyd-Louize-Harries-.jpg" data-mid="32620121" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/818/i/7948af9966647b696bd470a1a36d639d5a07a03822c152430959d7d6122daf97/Red-rains-2--Katie-May-Boyd-Louize-Harries-.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f5bec26364a25d31f6b1afe148a6ae141d64a3f88f959e288a96e1842aa46af/Lion-drones.jpg" data-mid="34479427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f5bec26364a25d31f6b1afe148a6ae141d64a3f88f959e288a96e1842aa46af/Lion-drones.jpg" /> Red Rains of Change/Pollution Protest Drone . The Red Rains of Change is a speculative counter fiction and responce to the illegal level of air pollution seen in London during 2016/2017 London had reached crisis levels of air pollution, with the UK government being taken to court twice by Client Earth on their failure to address the dangerous situation. Just 5 days into 2017 the legal limit was breached in the capital. This project proposes that in the presence of illegal levels of pollution a drone is deployed that produces red rain, making the pollution visible - both as a health warning and protest. The drone is equipped with the bacteria P.syringae to induce rain (a natural pollution suppressor) and algea spores from the lichen T.annulata that turns this rain red, the science behind this invention is backed up by scientists at UCL and the University of Montana.The biblical element highlights the severity of the problem, and puts contemporary plagues into a historical myth based context, while the bio design taps into current conversations around climate change and bio engineering solutions and the publics relationship (and fears) around technology. A Bio Design Challenge shortlisted project with Katie May Boyd.&nbsp; Exhibited at Open Cell studios during LDW 2018. https://louizeharries.com/New-Rituals Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:10:54 +0000 louize harries https://louizeharries.com/New-Rituals NEW RITUALS <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdf38acd69e4f320d050f058b7ab657a04ef06ee9eb8151bcf2d1ec2df6c9076/seedy1.jpg" data-mid="32622893" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdf38acd69e4f320d050f058b7ab657a04ef06ee9eb8151bcf2d1ec2df6c9076/seedy1.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a45ac49d5722881b0bc29113aae75c8ed50b69f3253ed8c4e79513f9a2be04db/seedy2.jpg" data-mid="32622937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a45ac49d5722881b0bc29113aae75c8ed50b69f3253ed8c4e79513f9a2be04db/seedy2.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/329566df463796d00e55b4343aead79cb7b8b204ca3fdab16aa5aade16c615fc/seedy3.jpg" data-mid="32622995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/329566df463796d00e55b4343aead79cb7b8b204ca3fdab16aa5aade16c615fc/seedy3.jpg" /> WHERE HAVE ALL THE INSECTS GONE? <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb35fa9613f67adb5609d0261fbfd04ddacfadf8d863b396ecf781599b032feb/INSECT.gif" data-mid="47592858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb35fa9613f67adb5609d0261fbfd04ddacfadf8d863b396ecf781599b032feb/INSECT.gif" /> New Rituals Can new rituals help prevent biodiversity loss? In 2013 an amateur group the Krefeld entomological society from Germany discovered that the total mass of insects caught in their trapping sites was down 80% raising the alarm in the EU about loss of wild pollinators, wild pollinators are the 1500 species including hoverflies butterflies moths wasps bumble solitary and mining bees that pollinate our food crops and cattle feed that provide free and essential services which in 2007 in the UK were valued at around 430 billion per year, These wild pollinators work alongside commercial honey bee hives in pollinating and recent research and experiments by the AAAS have shown that when pollination is by honey bees alone crop yields go down around 30 to 40% which has huge implications for food security and a growing world population. In the UK defra commissed ‘the national pollinator strategy’ to look at the growing evidence in loss of wild pollinators but concluded ‘There remains much uncertainty and research to be done around the ecological and biological mechanisms connecting changes in pollinator biodiversity, with pollination processes and ultimately the quality and quantity of UK crop yields’ Dr.Ben colleen from UCL London at the centre for biodiversity says &nbsp;‘the conservation status of less than 3% of the worlds described biodiversity is known so you can imagine how much data is available for uk insects’ and although there are now computational modeling programs available which can analyze and map trends helping to discover why insect loss is occurring there are issues with historical hard data as much of it was collected by amateur groups and is inconsistent. In order to fill the gaps in our knowledge of the UKs insect diversity we need data and lots of it but collected in controlled samples and recorded accurately… Almost in a way that resembles a ritual, The uk has many weird and wonderful folk traditions and rituals like the Mari lywd in Wales at winter solstice to the ‘obby ‘oss in Cornwall which in recent years thanks to artists like Jeremy Deller who toured Britain with a folk archive have enjoyed a renascence and public interest. My proposal is too capitalize on this new interest and create faux pagan style rituals that layer on top of existing rituals to encourage communities to collect the hard data needed. The greeting of the pollination orchestra. This data collecting ritual would take place on mayday bank holiday involving people gathering on the village green to meet the pollinating instruments , Followed by the the dance of the sweep net, sweep netting is the method used by scientists in the field when taking a control sample,&nbsp; to record the insects in a designated area,&nbsp; the contents would be noted into an official ledger then onto the next section to be monitored. The main instrument/ artifact is two hollow carved out wooden hemispheres attached and made into a resonance chamber and mounted with tuning forks that vibrate at the same frequency as bees and hoverflies at 400 Hz and cause a type of pollination call buzz pollination, the horsehair tassel attached to the bottom is what Chinese farmers in Sichuan have to use to pollinate their pear crops by hand, beacause of over use of pesticides and mono culture causing biodiversity and wild pollinator loss…this artifact will serve as a reminder of what our future will be in the impossible task of hand pollination &nbsp;if we don’t work to protect our biodiversity.