"Travel to Mexico City, Seoul or Paris and you will likely sit on the same chairs and see the same lamps. Products today no longer represent the place where they are made and used, rather they are the result of global industrial production and distribution.

"But nature doesn’t ship worldwide. Each bioregion is the product of a unique recipe — variations in sunlight, soil type, rainfall, and predator hierarchies inform what plants and animals call a place home.

"What if everyday products could emerge from their local ecosystem through a process that imitates nature? oio collaborated with artificial intelligence to explore a new design process, where objects emerge organically from a set of local variables."

Webpage: Products of Place: Localised Design with AI