Oversized and suspended from a city tree, you can observe a structure referencing the construction and life forms of insects. The Insect Embassy challenges us to stop and think about our own constructive and de- structive relations to insects. It is a call to take up the diplomatic relations between humans and insects.

The Insect Embassy is a collaboration between the ISOE–Institute for Social–Ecological Research and the IMD–Institute for Materialdesign at HfG Offenbach. It was created as part of the research project "SLInBio–Urban Lifestyles and the Valorization of Biodiversity," funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the BMBF Research Initiative for Biodiversity Conservation (FEdA).

IMD Team:

Alexander Becker, Marius Perl, Tobias Doch, Kamola Khudayberdieva, Markus Löffelholz, Antoine Ochs, Julia Schütze, David Wellen, Tobias Walter, Florim Fteja, Ani Jishkariani

Project tutors:

Dipl. Des. Valentin Brück 

Dr. Ziyu Zhou

M. Sc. Ludwig Ebert 

Sebastian Kujas 

Wolfgang Heide

Project leaders:

Dr. Florian Dirk Schneider 

Prof. Dr. Markus Holzbach

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