And finally… Man’s best friend?

The annual Ruhrtriennale festival in Germany regularly attracts installations which operate on the boundaries of art, architecture and design.

The designers of this particular piece, Atelier Van Lieshout, describe the structure which they call the ‘Domestikator’ as “a symbol for the power of humanity, paying homage to the ingenuity and capacity of humans, but the eventual use of this power to dominate and domesticate the natural environment … bringing to mind the ethical dilemmas of our time like bestiality, production and consumption”.


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