Design Investigations NHM

Could I be Gaboniontum?

A project designed by:

Sophie Hausmann

Johannes Felix Lotze

Emilie Dyrløv Madsen

Florian Sapp

“Could I be Gaboniontum?” aims to provide possible answers to the question “What the life of the fossil Gabonionta did look like in prehistoric times”. The following video material contains AI-generated visualizations of the Gabonionta - who was it, what did it look like and what was its environment like? More >

Bacterial Superpower

A project created by:

Team bacterial superpowers:

Julia Brandl

Lorenz Manuel Eckl

Gerald Geier

Sàra Ágnes Rajnai

Technical support and assistance from:

Birgit Hertel, Matthias Harzhauser, Bernhard Brandl, Rainer Doppler, Sarah Wilhelmy, Daniel Prem

This project imagines a world in which the first multicellular organism evolved utalizing the abilities of bacteria. Follow us, as we explore an alternative history for the Gabonionta, one that leads to what we call the Creatix Arbor. More >

Humanless Nature

An alternative view to the ever-prevalent Darwinist ‘survival of the fittest’ evolutionary model that has dominated schooling and ideology. What if a species responded to all environmental developments with some form of symbioses? Let these Gabonionta be an example. More >

Much Wants More

«Much Wants More» is an animated short film portaying the fragility of structures in nature by taking the viewer on a journey to a fictional deep time world. More >

Cooperation of Design Investigations with the Natural History Museum Vienna