Symbiotic Manufacture is a pop-up living installation that transforms the space into a temporary manufacturing landscape: a small micro-ecology shaped by light cycles, humidity, airflows, and the presence of visitors.

The installation is composed of four 3D-printed flowerpots inhabited by photosynthetic microbes. Together, they form a living environment where each vessel slowly changes through exposure, moisture, microbial activity, and time. Light, humidity, watering, and care become part of the material process.

The work unfolds through small atmospheric shifts and gradual transformation. It invites visitors to notice climate not as a passive condition, but as an active medium that shapes the installation.

A simple care protocol invites visitors to observe, pause, and take part in small gestures such as watering. Through this shared maintenance, Symbiotic Manufacture explores making as an ongoing relation between humans, microbes, minerals, and the surrounding environment. Fabrication becomes a slow process of growth, care, and transformation that continues over time, even when nobody is watching.

LarbitsSisters (Bénédicte Jacobs and Laure-Anne Jacobs) is a Brussels-based artist duo working across art, digital culture, ecology, living systems, and experimental fabrication. Their practice explores how technology and non-human life forms reshape production, coexistence, and perception through biomaterials, microorganisms, mineralisation, and computational processes.