Living Matter, Shaping Futures

Creating the green economy and clean-tech manufacturing practices of tomorrow will require bold collaborations among thought-leaders and innovators able to interweave biology, technology, ecology, and design. Living Matter, Shaping Futures, a group exhibition developed by The Brooklyn Army Terminal and BioBAT Art Space, which opens September 26th, offers a fascinating window into the work of artists and engineers working at this complex creative vanguard.

Presented in celebration of Climate Week NYC 2025 and the launch of BATWorks, NYCEDC’s clean-tech and climate innovation hub at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Living Matter, Shaping Futures invites visitors to imagine new material frontiers and multispecies perspectives that might redefine how we manufacture and design for the future.

As ecological pressures and shifting global climate patterns force us to reimagine the systems through which we define and design human societies, the exhibition illuminates the interdependence of all living systems and presents a hopeful vision for the future — one where resilience, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence inform culture, and critical technologies are integrated with the web of life.

The works of art and design innovation collected in this show expand the limits of human-centered design by recognizing cognition, agency, and creativity across nonhuman species, microbial networks, and technological ecologies. As author James Bridle suggests, intelligence emerges not from individual dominance but through collaboration, interrelation, and adaptive responsiveness. The exhibition calls on us to listen closely to these broader networks of planetary knowledge.

When: September 26, 2025–September 26, 2026
Where: Brooklyn Army Terminal, Building A, Main Entrance

Learn More: https://www.biobatartspace.com/