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Marika Botanicals

Marika Botanicals makes handmade soaps and natural cosmetics in a small lab in the area of Ancient Olympia. In our conversation she manifested that she aimes to combine ancient and modern herbology. Handmade and biological production modes do for her not exclude the investigation and use of newer technologies. With this in mind this design would voice the positive view on artificial intelligence dreaming that AI may in the future also include the complexity of non-human knowledge systems existing in nature. What would happen if we can extract the knowledge of herbs and plants and use it our thinking modes? For the moment we have requested AI to supply us with series of poems based on the containing substances. This AI poetry figuring on the containers seemed a most Typical way to speak about their content.