ICRESC V2
ICRESC V2
“
Regenerative Stick ”
2025
ICRESC V2 is a speculative walking stick designed to disperse seeds as its user moves through the landscape. The project explores how everyday objects might actively contribute to ecological regeneration rather than simply support human activity.
Inspired by ideas of symbiosis and the need to rethink our relationship with nature, the walking stick transforms the simple gesture of walking into a quiet act of restoration. With each step, seeds are gradually released from a growth-shaped container attached to the stick, leaving traces that may eventually take root.
The object is digitally fabricated using bio-based PLA and finished with shellac. Its organic form resembles a benign growth or mutation, suggesting that not all proliferations are harmful; some may enable regeneration, entanglement, and care between species.
Rather than proposing a literal solution, ICRESC V2 functions as a speculative prototype, a tool that invites reflection on how technology could help humans become participants in ecological cycles rather than external observers.
The project was presented at Dutch Design Week (2025) as part of The Symbiocene Forest – Roots at BioArt Laboratories in Eindhoven.
The accompanying film, demonstrating the use of the walking stick in a forest environment,
features Mathijs Delbaere.
Inspired by ideas of symbiosis and the need to rethink our relationship with nature, the walking stick transforms the simple gesture of walking into a quiet act of restoration. With each step, seeds are gradually released from a growth-shaped container attached to the stick, leaving traces that may eventually take root.
The object is digitally fabricated using bio-based PLA and finished with shellac. Its organic form resembles a benign growth or mutation, suggesting that not all proliferations are harmful; some may enable regeneration, entanglement, and care between species.
Rather than proposing a literal solution, ICRESC V2 functions as a speculative prototype, a tool that invites reflection on how technology could help humans become participants in ecological cycles rather than external observers.
The project was presented at Dutch Design Week (2025) as part of The Symbiocene Forest – Roots at BioArt Laboratories in Eindhoven.
The accompanying film, demonstrating the use of the walking stick in a forest environment,
features Mathijs Delbaere.
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