What we are
2025
Aluminium, glass, plastic, textile, light, moving components
Our bodies are made out of trillions of Cells. Like microscopic factories, these are some of most technologically advanced places in this world, yet remain inaccessible to us without microscopes. ‘What we are’ is an engaging, educational scale model of a Eukaryotic Cell, the blueprint of all animal, plant and fungal life. The model takes us on a journey down the microscope, to a scale smaller than a hair’s width, the Micro-world. It allows us to gaze inside one of our Cells, and explore the beautiful forms that thrive within. It creates a space for learning about our anatomy in an imersive way. Crafted from glass, aluminium, textile and a variety of other materials, this scientifically accurate, yet captivating model uses movement and light to present the micro-world as spatial, detailed, limitlessly complicated, wondrous and alive.
WITH THANKS TO
Dr Nicholas Kurniawan, Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology
Equipment & Prototype Center, Glass Lab, Eindhoven University of Technology
Drew Berry, Biomedical Animator
Yuriy Svidinenko, Medical Animator