Carolina Minana is a Manila-born, New York-based designer exploring how landforms and geographic contexts can shape, inform, and translate different stages in her design process. Using this as a foundation for her practice stems from an interest in environmental and urban systems and societies as well as her upbringing in an archipelagic nation.
She currently works with bacteria, yeast, and mold as mediums to highlight the life forms we don’t actively see by giving them agar-based platforms to exist on. Additionally, she has been experimenting with bio-based materials that are produced in the Philippines such as abaca, sinamay, and hemp to see how they may expand her understanding of materiality applications.