All Hands On: Basketry at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin
...With the exhibition All Hands On: Basketry the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin allow for, demand, a critical reassessment... And reflections on basketry and architecture also encouraged via a presentation of examples of the use of basketry by non-human animals in their architecture, primarily the various species of the so-called weaver birds, alongside examples of the use of basketry by human animals without the assistance of architects, including examples of the many living root bridges to be found in the forests of the state of Meghalaya in northeastern India, again one presumes India, Asia, and not India, Europe, and alongside examples of the use of basketry by human architect animals such as the proposed Haus der Zukunft, House of the Future, in Berlin by Office for Living Architecture, OLA, a composition in steel, glass, concrete and trees as a union of the nature constructed world and human constructed world to a single inseparable entity...