‘Elements of Nature’ is an ongoing research project questioning, 'How can human wearables become connected to a distant ecosystem? 'How can they transmit the changes in ecosystem parameters in a tangible way? And how can the wearables themselves become part of the circulation of resources and networks of energy?'.

The current state is dedicated to the plants allocated in the areas with no or very small traces of human presence, high up in the Tyrolean Alps region. A list of plants defined by the scientists researching the influence of climate changes on biodiversity in the region as indicators of climate change becomes the focus point of the research. By working with their L-systems, scans, and parameters in a way as a 'digital botany' exercise, we are creating physical garments with digital layers, immersing the viewer into the ongoing relationship with the distant 'home' ecosystem of each plant species and their slow traveling in the search for comfort.

Inserted into the 3D-printed garments, NFC tags open the digital versions of garments and an interface representing the data on plants. The ambition of the project is to set up these interfaces and links in real-time and test out various fabrication techniques and materials that could be used for the final version of garments, making them completely biodegradable, dissolvable, repairable, eatable, etc.

The project is part of Daria's PhD research investigating interspecies architecture and interfaces between humans and non-human nature under Prof. Marjan Colletti at the Department of Experimental Architecture—Hochbau at the University of Innsbruck.

It was partly featured as a phygital fashion-art installation bridging eco-data, design and on-demand technology: physical garments 3d printed upon request on site, accompanied by digital garments and fashion pieces (dresses created in collaboration with Right Direction) at Digital Fashion Week NYC & London 2025