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Winner Project of Repariring the Present residency // S+T+ARTS 2022
Awarded for the S+T+Arts Nomination 2023

GEO-LLUM

Reimagining the role of lighting in public urban spaces with a symbiotic relationship between the artificial and the natural world, focusing on a deeper understanding of the fundamental importance of microorganisms as collaborator in the city.

Geo-Llum functioning prototype in 1:6 scale Sculpture: bronze, bio-resin, copper, wood
MFC: ceramic, glass, cables, ABU (Universal Bio Acumulator) battery to store the electricity gathered from the soil

The artwork is a prototype on a 1:6 scale. It consists in a light sculpture that can facilitate different tasks based on an electro-active bacteria that produces electricity while decontaminating the soil.

Here below the essential points of interest:

- lighting
- soil decontamination
- free energy / electricity
- rain water collection

Geo-Llum is conceived as an organic and living being, where the role of humans is to take care of it, drawing attention to the different forces that play for its right functioning.

All the parts of Geo-Llum are interconnected and interdependent, gathering and collaborating to create a cycle of energy.

︎ Free energy while
bio-remediating

Photo Credit Derek Lovley

Geobacter metallireducens is a member of the Geobacteraceae, a family of Fe(III)-respiring Delta-proteobacteria that are of interest for their role in cycling of carbon and metals in aquatic sediments and subsurface environments as well as the bioremediation of organic- and metal-contaminated groundwater and the harvesting of electricity from complex organic matter.

This microbe is able to grow on metallic minerals or electrodes, generating electrical energy while eliminating certain pollutant from the soil and water, during its metabolisation.

Photo Credit Derek Lovley

This living microorganism is present in all kind of moist soils but will be inoculated during the prototype exhibition in order to enhance the electricity produced in the Micorbial Fuel Cell battery (MFC).

︎ Geo-Llum program

The multidisciplinary aproach happens to be the best way also in the making of the project it self interlacing art, design and science(s).

Disciplines involved:
Art
Microbiology
Electro-chemistry
Bio-electronic Engineering
Bio Design
Ecology

CLICK HERE for more infos about Geobacters

︎ Framework

Special thanks to Green City Lab and Akasha Hub for the first incubation development.

The project was hosted by CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona) in the frame of S+T+ARTS Residencies, Repairing the Present 2022.

This project has been possible thanks to the collaboration with:

Abraham Esteve Nuñez from Bioe Group , Imdea Agua and the University of Alcalà de Henares
-> Bio-electro Engineering

Derek Lovley from UMass Amrest
-> Scientific Contributor

Miguel Alegre
-> 3D Modelling

Special thanks to: Malarko, Kait Hutchison

->PRESS

CCCB activities
urban activist
Lab CCCB
Tv Rai Scuola
interview ita
Art tribune
L’Avanguardia
Archisearch

->EVENTS

Now exhibited at Disseny Hub Barcelona in the permanent exhibition Matter Matters.

ISEA Barcelona 2022
Ars Electronica Prize 2023
Resilienze Fest Bologna 2023

Milan at MEET

Rome at MAXXI