Joanne Jones is a bio-inclusive and collaborative designer and researcher with a multidisciplinary approach to design research, industrial design, and interspecies collaboration. Embracing acts of care, ritual, and ceremony, her praxis embodies the acknowledgment that the nonhuman possesses agency beyond the human. Her ongoing research focuses on interspecies collaboration with bioassembled materials as a conduit for conscious creation with the other-than-human. These explorations oscillate among the realms of art, design, and science as she expresses them through object design, photography, music, video, performance, and writing. She currently resides in Paris, working with NGO design studio thr34d5, textile research institute AITEX, Getty Images, and Cernune Studio. She is also a member of the artist collective Non-étoile, and a resident in the collective's music studio.
EDUCATION
MSc Nature Inspired Design, ENSCI-Les Ateliers
BS Industrial Design, Ohio State University
MSc Nature Inspired Design, ENSCI-Les Ateliers
BS Industrial Design, Ohio State University
Exhibitions
WORTH Exhibition, Fuorisalone Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy
WORTH Partnership Project with thr34d5 and Sara & Sarah Textiles, 2023
WORTH Partnership Project with thr34d5 and Sara & Sarah Textiles, 2023
Artefact & Design Showcase // ArcInTex Symposium Living Textile Architectures, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Hosted by the Living Textiles Research Group, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE), 2022
Hosted by the Living Textiles Research Group, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE), 2022
FIRST INSTAR, 208 Bowery, New York, NY, USA
curated by Ecogenic Research Collective, 2022
curated by Ecogenic Research Collective, 2022
Fermentation Général, Association Ultra, Place de la Gare, Le Relecq-Kerhuon, France
curated by Collectif Enoki, 2022
curated by Collectif Enoki, 2022
Sinneswelten: Bakterien, Universitat der Kunste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
digital exhibition @sinneswelten_bakterien on Instagram, 2022
digital exhibition @sinneswelten_bakterien on Instagram, 2022
Workshops & Talks Facilitated
Guest Speaker, Entrée - Design Terroir Workshop by Adrien Rigobello
CITA (Royal Danish Academy), 2023
CITA (Royal Danish Academy), 2023
Guest Speaker Thesis Presentation, Thinking Architectures Lecture by Nadja Gaudillière-Jamy
CITA (Royal Danish Academy), 2023
CITA (Royal Danish Academy), 2023
Interspecies Collaboration with Kombucha Production Workshop
Summer School - éé Versailles, 2022
Summer School - éé Versailles, 2022
Honors & Awards
BraunPrize 2018 Special Mention, Design For What Matters, Kronberg, Germany, 2018
Special Mention recognition in the top 15 student projects of 3,087 international submissions for VIVE, an educational beekeeping hive design and system. This project was displayed in Germany at the BraunPrize Exhibition.
Special Mention recognition in the top 15 student projects of 3,087 international submissions for VIVE, an educational beekeeping hive design and system. This project was displayed in Germany at the BraunPrize Exhibition.
Prizes & fundings
Funding award for Kinoko Torii with thr34d5 – WORTH Partnership Project, 2022
