BIOFABRICATE 2017: The Day After
The Biofabricate summit returned for its fourth iteration this December. The annual summit brings together global leaders in the fields of design, biology, and technology…
Launch: Parley for the Oceans Defense Fund
Humans produce almost 300 million tons of plastic each year, but 99% of the plastic that should be floating in the world’s oceans is…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AIWU, exploring a future society driven by technology
Ruiheng Sun, as known as AIWU, holds two BE degrees; one in Facility Agricultural Science and Engineering, and the other in Industry Design (Hohai University,…
Summit: Biofabricate Conference 2017
This week we are looking forward to coming back to Biofabricate, the annual summit on grown materials, as it comes to New Lab in…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews
ALI SCHACHTSCHNEIDER, (re)imagining fashion through biotechnology
New York designer, artist and researcher Ali Schachtschneider is reinventing today’s fashion using biotechnology. As a resident artist and design experimenter at Genspace, the world’s…
Summit: Global Community Bio Summit
The MIT Media Lab hosted the Global Community Bio Summit this September as part of it community biotechnology initiative. The Media Lab, which has…
Digital and Material Worlds: an artistic view
‘Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Being digital is not just being a geek or Internet surfer…
Paper: Digital and Material Worlds: An artistic view
Last month CLOT Magazine editors gave a keynote talk at the 3rd International Conference on Biodigital Architecture & Genetics, at ESARQ (UIC Barcelona). Organized…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
GINKGO BIOWORKS, biology by design
Synthetic biology is believed to be one of our best chances to address some of the global issues of an expanding world population such as…
Architectures, Biofabricate, Design, Interviews
DUMOLAB*, fabricating a path to sustainable product design
Architect and Bio-practitioner Laia Mogas-Soldevila is at the forefront of developing tools that incorporate biology into the fabrication process. Her research studio, DumoLab*, a…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
JAMES CARNES, VP Strategy Creation & Lead for Open Source adidas Group
Massive hunting, fishing, agriculture, brought to scale by the industrial revolution and technological advances, have altered the environment and the atmosphere. Human beings have polluted…
BIOFABRICATE 2016: The Day After
BIOFABRICATE is the annual conference that brings together critical thinking and design to challenge both what we know and how we use materials. The…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Thinkers
DUNNE & RABY, using design as a tool to critique, debate, and speculate
In opposition to the narrow role of consumer-driven design in the development of existing and emerging technologies, design duo Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby…
THOUGHT COLLIDER, everything in nature has a purpose and is cyclical
A theme continuing to weave through the work of Thought Collider, the experimental critical art and design duo, Mike Thompson and Susana Cámara Leret, examines…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SARAH DAHER, sending messages through the air by releasing chemical molecules
Interdisciplinary designer Sarah Daher explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology and imagines future scenarios in which humans in which humans will engage with…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
JINHEE PARK, exploring issues around our day-to-day life
Jinhee Park is a designer and artist, student from RCA Design Interactions MA, whose designs explore issues around our day-to-day life. Memory and perception are…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AGI HAINES, bioprinting organs for a better future
Transdisciplinary designer and PhD researcher at Cognovo, Agi Haines, is investigating the potential of the human body as a raw material for our design…
CAROLE COLLET, exploring biomimicry, living technologies and biofacturing
Carole Collet has been fascinated with synthetic biology since she had the privilege to work with Sir John Sulston in 2007. Researcher, designer, and…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TIM CLARK, imagining future visions of alternative energies and flight
The term technophillia refers to one’s enthusiasm or passion for new technologies, taken literally from Greek technē, meaning art, craft or skill and philos, meaning…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
MELISSA STERRY, blurring the boundaries between environment, technology and engineering
Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, droughts, tornadoes and eruptions are commonly known as natural disasters for most people, but what if it’s a cry…