Lab days at the @mabiodesign with our lecturer @paula_nerlich and the fabulous @growlabcsm
Our first year students have weekly workshops in the Grow Lab, learning about diverse organisms, their growth needs and design thinking strategies and processes to shape and biodesign-with 🌱🦠🧫🍄🥼
📸 @augmented_architectures
A big thank you to our students in the lab and @luiggi_marrese showcasing how to work on the fume hood 💖
We are delighted to share that MABD staff members Nancy Diniz @biomatters.llc , Paula Nerlich @paula_nerlich and Thora Arnardottir @thoraarnar have presented their research at ‘Bio-Design for Living Futures’ organized by @cocoon.bio
An international symposium merging nature, innovation, and design — part of Barcelona Design Week 2025 and hosted by Iaac @iaacbcn
We had the opportunity to connect with friends and colleagues and have meaningful conversations on the future of bio-materials, designing with life, circular design to bio-economies and many other topics.
🎙️ Inspiring speakers, cutting-edge research, and conversations that matter.
👉 #BioDesign #LivingFutures #BarcelonaDesignWeek #CircularDesign #LivingArchitecture #SpeculativeDesign #BioMaterials #DesignWithLife #CoCoonSymposiu @jtm_csm@csm_news
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The yoghurt endeavours continue 😀
There is a whole universe of bacteria to work with and combine them into diverse shades of texture, taste and colour 🌈
This one is home-grown kefir and L. casei Shirota
Home-made chocolate 🍫
The process of chocolate making brings up memories of my early-stage DIY biomaterial making explorations; looking at changes in matter, consistency, finishing, and the sensory elements of it.
Luckily these coming final six months of PhD will require a lot of chocolate making😆 and I cannot wait to explore the possibilities of texture, scent, and taste ✨
This is to celebrate microbial magic ✨ outside the lab ☺️
Image 1: home made ricotta
Image 2: home made yoghurt
🦠: a magical mix of kefir community
It is such joy to create with these microbial communities and offers a bridge and expansion to the learnings in the @bio_buildings microbiology lab. Experimentation can happen anywhere, and making cheese is for sure an incredible source of °knowledge through making° - teaching oneself to understand the microbial needs and changes, adapting and refining. Welcome to my new obsession 😆
🔬magic ✨ observing textile-bacterial interactions 🦠🧫
This is part of @paula_nerlich PhD research into textile-bacterial hybrids - developing living textiles with bacterial organisms. 🦠🧫🧶
#livingtextiles
Big merci to @livingconstruction.hbbe for the fabulous 🔬
