House of Wonders: Robots and plants mingle in the home of the future

Award-winning furniture designer Werner Aisslinger has created an installation at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich that predicts how we might combine robots with sustainability in our homes in the future.

The House of Wonders exhibition foreshadows a "whimsical, sustainability-focused future that combines domestic life with farming and robotics", says Dezeen.

It includes themes related to everything from farming and nature to storytelling and the human condition. Genetically optimised plants are shaped into furniture, while a "friendly" robot dressed in a special 1972 Olympics jumper carries out the gardening.

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Another household drone, wearing a hand-knitted cardigan, is programmed to hang up the laundry, while the bathroom is designed to include office space and indoor plants to provide oxygen to the home's inhabitants.

A chair made of foliage grown in a greenhouse, which was first seen at Aisslinger's 2012 Milan design show, is among the items to prompt questions about how the furniture of the future will be produced.

The installation has the ability to "continue to question the relationship between art and design, between present and future", says Design Boom.

The exhibition will be at Paternoster Hall in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich until September 2017.

Credit: Studio Aisslinger/Patricia Parinejad