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TWENTY + CHANGE: EMERGING TORONTO DESIGN PRACTICES

Edited by Heather Dubbeldam, Lola Sheppard

"Implant Matrix" by Philip Beesley

"Implant Matrix is an interactive geotextile that could be used for reinforcing landscapes and buildings of the future. The matrix is capable of mechanical empathy. A network of mechanisms reacts to human occupants as erotic prey. The structure responds to human presence with subtle grasping and sucking motions, ingesting organic materials, and incorporating them into a new hybrid entity ..."

Implant Matrix
Philip Beesley
pp 90-93

Twenty + Change: Emerging Toronto Design Practices
Edited by Heather Dubbeldam, Lola Sheppard

Riverside Architectural Press
Toronto, ON, 2009
ISBN 978-1-926724-00-3