digital naturalism

The experimental, month-long Digital Naturalism Conference (DiNaCon) explores natural environments through technology. International scientists, technologists, and artists gathered in Gamboa, Panama to utilize a maker space in the jungle.  

At DiNaCoN, Veselka’s research examined the built environments of biological research centers as life-support systems—architectures designed not merely to contain life but to sustain and co-evolve with it. During this residency, she used modeling tools to design speculative structures that merge architectural form with organic growth, envisioning infrastructures that blur the boundaries between the technological and the biological. These prototypes explored how built systems might function as living interfaces, evolving alongside the organisms they support and challenging conventional distinctions between constructed environments and ecological processes.