What happens when humans and more-than-humans collaborate to transform waste and the invisible into new forms of value?
We live in an economy of waste: of things, of people, of resources and ideas. An economy that renders invisible what it cannot commodify. The threat we are facing today is not scarcity but waste itself and the systematic invisibilization of all that gets deemed worthless. This system profits from disposability while concealing the violence of what gets discarded, who gets erased, and who decides.
What if we transformed waste into value, invisibility into presence, isolation into connection, extinction into rebirth?
Viridixima is a transdisciplinary studio dedicated to actively responding to the challenges of an uncertain future. We reimagine what society discards—waste and the invisible—as sources of inspiration, regeneration, and transformation into new forms of value through posthumanist art and regenerative design practices.
Our approach is rooted in co-design with more-than-human ecologies. In this perspective our role as creatives is to act as translators and facilitators recognizing the autonomous intelligence of our collaborators.
At Viridixma we imagine futures where humans and more-than-humans coexist through collaboration and interdependence. Where today's waste becomes tomorrow's substrate for life. Where the invisible and unheard gains voice and agency. We advocate for innovation that moves away from the extractive act towards regenerative processes inspired by biodiversity.
We are dedicated to designing new relationships between nature, technology, and society, creating scenarios where nothing is waste or unfairly invisible because everything participates in cycles of transformation and regeneration.
Sustainability is no longer sufficient. The time has come to actively contribute to restoring and regenerating our planet and learning to thrive and coexist with it.
For us, creation is a process that emerges from listening to and collaborating with the multiple entities that compose and decompose hybrid ecosystems: living and non-living organisms, geological and social phenomena, technological infrastructures and environmental networks, waste streams becoming nutrient cycles, invisible processes gaining material presence.
The human is no longer seen as separate from or above these systems but rather interconnected with them. This shift from anthropocentric fiction to ecological thinking transforms how we understand agency, authorship, and responsibility.
This approach aims to embrace complexity, transformation, and uncertainty. It implies responsibility and to consider the real limits of regenerative practices. Every creative gesture, every intervention in the world, has ecological and social consequences that must be understood and integrated into the process.
Waste and the invisible speak of abandoned matter and everything that is ignored, marginalized, or rendered invisible in ecological, social, and cultural processes.
The production of waste and invisibility serves power. It maintains cheap labor by discarding workers when exhausted. It justifies land grabs by declaring territories empty. It enables environmental racism by placing toxicity in already marginalized communities. It erases dissent by making certain voices unhearable. Understanding waste and unjust invisibilities requires examining who benefits from these erasures.
Posthumanist perception reveals how anthropocentric hierarchies create these categories of disposability. When we decenter the human, material waste reveals its own force, matter out of place awaiting transformation. Invisible processes that shape our world fundamentally become perceptible. Marginalized knowledge systems emerge as sophisticated technologies Western science only begins to recognize.
In this perspective we see today's waste as tomorrow's nutrient, working toward futures where waste becomes obsolete because everything cycles through states of use and regeneration, where every ending feeds a beginning.
In regard to invisibility it is important to note that making the invisible visible becomes political when it exposes deliberately obscured power relations, suppressed voices, ignored ecological relationships.
Our practice discerns between forms of invisibilities in which revelation serves justice and when opacity preserves autonomy.
When we talk about waste and invisible we often find overlapping dimensions, boundaries that shift and blur. We utilize the following list not like a rigid container but more like a fluid way that helps us understand the forces that render certain matters, beings, and processes disposable. What appears as material waste might simultaneously be immaterial loss; what seems invisible might be the most material presence. We offer these as provisional mappings of a shifting terrain:
Some toxicity cannot be transformed. Some damage cannot be reversed. Some species, once extinct, will not return. We work with irreversible contamination, acknowledging loss while seeking whatever remediation remains possible.
We engage with work that holds at the same time mourning and possibility as we explore how to create new forms of value within permanently altered ecosystems.
We explore and create solutions across different transdisciplinary areas:
We commit to:
The transformation has already begun all around us: in neighborhood laboratories and community gardens, in abandoned lots becoming ecosystems, in galleries where organisms are co-curators, in the futures we prototype and in the stories we tell where waste becomes nutrient in endless cycles of use and transformation.
Join us in composting the world that was, to nurture and grow the worlds that might yet be.