The Four Worlds Podcast
The Four Worlds Podcast
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The Four Worlds Podcast explores how a simple idea can grow into something that changes the world. Each episode takes you on a journey—from the spark of inspiration, through the creation process, innovation challenges, and to the path of real-world production.From sketch to shelf and prototype to product, join us as we uncover the stories behind breakthrough inventions and innovations with the creators, engineers, designers, and visionaries who bring them to life.
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The podcast focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainability, with episodes highlighting topics such as smart gardening technologies with Plantaform, health-monitoring devices with WoddleBaby, robotics in pool maintenance with WYBOT, sustainable brewing practices with Sierra Nevada, and nature integration through Bird Buddy's innovations.
The Four Worlds Podcast explores how a simple idea can grow into something that changes the world. Each episode takes you on a journey—from the spark of inspiration, through the creation process, innovation challenges, and to the path of real-world production.
From sketch to shelf and prototype to product, join us as we uncover the stories behind breakthrough inventions and innovations with the creators, engineers, designers, and visionaries who bring them to life.
In this episode, we are joined by artist Selin Balci, whose art begins not with paint but with living microorganisms.
A former forestry and microbiology student, Selin explains how she collects microbes from soil, trees, water, and even the human body, then isolates and cultivates them into controlled art pieces.
We talk about the science and art of sterilizing tools, nutrient mediums, contamination, and how she decides when to stop and when a piece is finished. We touch on her project, Echoes of Nature, in which mold consumes Polaroids of actual nature scenes to signify the end of nature as we know it, and 30 Faces, where people’s microbes reform the portraits of their faces over time, making them interactive.
Selin also ponders imperfection, rot, why contamination is not always a mistake, and the questions her art evokes about identity and sustainability.
If you’re interested in where art, science, and the natural world intersect, this is a rare glimpse into microscopic art.
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