We.Wheat.Weave | 2024

Initiative project
Commissioned by: DesignSingapore Council
Concept and Design: Xijing Xu and Yue Liu
Photo credits: Xijing Xu

With the widespread adoption of hybrid breeding, led by major seed companies to boost yield and production stability, the diversity of seeds and traditional cultivars is steadily disappearing from modern agriculture.

We.Wheat.Weave is an ongoing research project that collects diverse wheat and cereal varieties from places designers have lived and visited. Supported by the local community and using traditional weaving techniques, these materials are continuously crafted into a growing, basket-like sculpture that incorporates wheat ears, plant roots, and the weeds growing among the grains in each field.
This blend of materials creates a coarse, vibrant texture and shifting patterns, embodying a vision of ecological diversity and portraying their impressions of different fields.

The project has been presented as one of the special projects in the thematic exhibition area EAT: Transformative Seeds at Singapore Design Week 2024.