Weronika Turowska
ma biodesign
Central Saint Martins UAL
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Material Innovation / Contemporary Craft / Design Research
My location: London, United Kingdom
Weronika Turowska
First Name: Weronika
Last Name: Turowska
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program: ma biodesign
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Material Innovation / Contemporary Craft / Design Research
My Location: London, United Kingdom
Website: Click To See Website
About
Weronika is a biodesigner and material researcher exploring regenerative design, material innovation, and the emerging agency of living and responsive materials.
She recently completed her Master’s in Biodesign at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her latest work investigates the intersection of agential materials and traditional crafts. Fascinated by microorganisms, she explores how living systems can be incorporated into material design.
With a focus on biodesign as a tool for storytelling and ecological engagement, Weronika examines how microbes and living materials might transform indoor environments into adaptive, responsive spaces.
What if the objects in our homes could sense, shift, and adapt like living things? Payonke: Adaptive Mobiles explores this possibility through active, hybrid materials that contain Bacillus subtilis spores - probiotic bacteria that react to moisture by changing shape, much like how pinecones open in the rain. Drawing from Polish pająki ludowe, traditional folk mobiles once made to bring prosperity into the home, this project reimagines the craft through a new perspective on materials. The result is a series of responsive, interlocking structures that move with changing humidity, acting as natural indicators and mould-prevention tools. By treating microbes not as threats but as collaborators, Payonke proposes a new material and craft language, where tradition meets innovation, and where objects possess agency, shape-shifting alongside us and fostering ongoing visual interaction between human and microbial life.
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