Valerio Di Giannantonio is a Master’s student at Iceland University of the Arts.
Valerio received the 1st prize and €5,000 from each BE OPEN and Cumulus in the Second Life of Things in Design student competition for FiloSkin, a speculative product and system that proposes a thread made of H. Pluvialis, a microalga that is capable of producing oxygen, filtering CO2 from the air and responding to changes in the environment by taking on different colors.
A symbiosis of nutrient exchange is established for common benefit, in which the organism acquires antioxidants, oxygen and environmental information with colors, while the tissue, through its geometry is able to condense and process CO2 and water vapor from our skin and the surrounding environment. By enabling textiles to interact with our bodies through a symbiotic relationship with the skin, Filoskin might serve to mitigate environmental problems while adapting humans to pollution conditions in the future.