ProjectFlores Mechanica
Created for Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, Flores Machanica explores the latent beauty and material potential of electronic waste. Discarded components are disassembled and recombined into speculative botanical forms, blurring the boundaries between the organic and the technological. The project considers waste not as an endpoint, but as a material archive from which unfamiliar forms can emerge.
Flores Mechanica — Flowers
Flores Mechanica — Flowers
| Client | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
| Year | 2024 |
| Location | New York, USA | Brussels, BE |
| Concept & Design | Archibald Godts & Theresa Bastek |
| Photography & Assistance | Gianmarco Ciucciovè |
Created for Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, Flores Machanica is a speculative botanical study grown from the material remains of electronic technology. Discarded components from electrical and electronic devices are carefully disassembled, selected and recombined into intricate floral structures, revealing unexpected affinities between technological and organic forms.
The project considers waste as a material archive—holding traces of production, use, obsolescence and technological change. Through the transformation of circuits, wires, connectors and other remnants into flowers, Flores Machanicashifts these materials from the logic of consumption into a language of growth and regeneration.Neither natural nor purely mechanical, the resulting specimens inhabit an ambiguous territory between organism, artefact and fossil. They suggest a botanical future shaped by the materials of our technological present, where what we discard might become the seed for entirely new forms.
