In this constantly changing world, world of chance opposed to certainty, world of climate change, unpredictable health crises and global cataclysms how could we design something that evolves and adapts by itself, instead of fixed and finite objects?
Is there another direction for humans and our relationship with technology than the ultimate control of everything? Could the machines we make shift from being cold, rigid and pollutant to emotive, adaptive and ecological? Could the humans be a source of machine’s creativity and the machines open unexpected new ways of seeing this world and us?
Animaspace is an interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of generative art, design research and experimental architecture based in Rotterdam.
With the help of mixed media (film, prototypes, interactive installations and performances), the studio explores the connection between human-machine-environment, their collaboration, communication and co-design strategies.
Angelina Kozhevnikova (studio Animaspace) setting drones for performance as part of COORDINATED project at Theatro Circo, Braga, Semibreve Festival (2022)
Photo credits to Adriano Ferreira Borges
Founder & Director
Angelina Kozhevnikova is an Interdisciplinary Artist and Researcher and is the Founder and Director of Animaspace, a Rotterdam-based studio exploring human-machine-environment communication, collaboration and co-design. She is also currently a Researcher at TU Delft & ETH Zurich.
Being simultaneously an artist and a female scientist at the forefront of technology, she offers a unique and sometimes radical perspective on our relationship with machines and the environment. Her projects challenge technology's role by offering open-ended and collaborative scenarios to imagine alternative possible applications and modes of relation to emerging technologies. Communicating these ideas with the help of mixed media (film, prototypes, interactive installations and performances), her artistic practice becomes an experimental field research lab in a constant transition.
She holds a Master of Architecture and Urbanism degree with Distinction from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory in London (AA DRL) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Moscow Architectural Institute with the Research Exchange in Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo.
Her work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale, London Design Biennale, Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art, Semibreve Festival, Oyoun Berlin and Zaha Hadid Gallery. Publications mentioning the studio's projects include CNN, Wallpaper*, DesignWeek, Clatham House and CLOT Magazine.
She is the Winner of the Edigma Semibreve Award (2022) and nominated for the Lumen Prize Interactive/3D Award (2022). Additionally, she was awarded the HVA Research of the Year Prize (2023) (as part of AUAS Robot Lab) and was listed as the author of one of the boldest design proposals of 2021 by CNN, along with Tesla, BMW and Sony's innovation groups.