Beyond Chrysant Wall
An acoustic wall experiment grown from a chrysanthemum nursery’s own plant residues.
- Year
- 2020
- Location
- Hoek van Holland, Netherlands
- Materials
- Mycelium and horticultural residues
- Credits
- Colllective: Andy Cartier, Nehis Osagie and Dominik Einfalt · SIGN · Beyond Chrysant
About
the project
A noisy processing hall at Beyond Chrysant prompted a different question: could the nursery’s discarded stems become part of the wall that helped quiet the workplace? The team grew mycelium in demountable forms using chrysanthemum fibres and other plant waste from the horticulture process.
Andy Cartier worked on the project with Nehis Osagie and Dominik Einfalt as Colllective, in a collaboration involving SIGN and Beyond Chrysant. The softly folded surface in the archive is a detail of this material-led wall investigation. It records how the agricultural residue was transformed into a tangible interior element.
The project is presented as an experimental installation. No certified acoustic rating is claimed here; the value of the work is the loop between a specific waste stream, growing process and place of use.
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