The Metabolic Guide to Space Survival is a multidisciplinary exploration of microbial life as a key to long-term survival in space. Framed through the voice of fictional character Chief Bioengineer Mira Kordan, age 75, living aboard the starship Möbius, the work unfolds across three interwoven forms: a speculative design toolkit, a narrative guidebook, and an architectural installation animated by holographic projections of Mira navigating life in zero gravity.
Part of Sheltering in Space: A guide, curated by Claudia Schugg
This is the inaugural exhibition of the Universe Pavilion, at Fabrica 33, Venice
running alongside the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Made in collaboration with acib academic partner laboratories: the Metabolic and Cell Engineering group at BOKU University Vienna, the Research Group Research Group for Biochemistry at Technische Universität Wien, and the Biochemical Network Analysis Group at University of Vienna
Supported by Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology through the ARTcib SciArt Residency
