KASVAA investigates how biomaterials, specifically bacterial cellulose (SCOBY), can act as reversible binding agents. The project imagines material futures where living matter temporarily binds materials through growth. 

This project proposes five frames, each examining the interaction between SCOBY as a material substrate and added materials. Each SCOBY culture was grown for one week before external materials were introduced. Over the following three weeks, fragments of materials cut into patterns were added gradually, one per week, allowing us to observe the ongoing negotiation between the cellulose sheet and the introduced elements. The pattern was designed to allow the Scoby growth to penetrate through it. 

Throughout this period, we observed how SCOBY either redirected its growth around the materials, partially enveloped them, or fully incorporated them into its structure. These behaviours revealed different degrees of binding showing when the SCOBY resisted, accepted, or transformed these added elements. The process highlighted the cellulose's agency within an environment of a co-formation. We posed a question of how do biomaterials operate within domestic environments and how their inherent temporality can be used as a desirable material property.