Launch: MOGU 100% biodegradable Acoustic Panels
MOGU is an innovative, eco-friendly company that is completely changing the face of product design. Its core belief is that Nature is the best designer…
Biofabricate, Biomedia, Op & Ed
Maurizio Montalti and MOGU, bringing the biotechnological revolution, by Živa Brglez
Transdisciplinary, research, creativity, collaboration, bio-… there are just some of the keywords that pop-up very often, maybe too often, when we are talking about contemporary…
‘NEW SILK: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials’, Kirsi Niinimäki, Camilla Groth & Pirjo Kääriäinen
New Silk is a 4 year material research project conducted at Aalto University aiming to produce new types of silk-like materials in the context of…
PAZ TORNERO, thinking through juxtapositions
Since roughly the middle of the 20th century, the concept of creativity has been popularly viewed as constitutive part of both art and science. Inasmuch…
Exhibition: ‘Watery Ecologies. Artistic Research’ at ArtLaboratory Berlin
Water and water pollution is becoming a central focus in artistic research. There is an exponentially growing number of initiatives, exhibitions and artists reflecting on…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TH3MAX, and the aestheticization of pain
In the world of all kinds of alienations, in the world of spectacles, where “everything that was directly lived is now merely represented in…
Summit: Biofabricate Conference 2018
This Thursday 13 Biofabricate, the annual summit on grown materials, comes to New Lab in Brooklyn to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Founded by Suzanne Lee,…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ALICE POTTS, ways to use sweat to create accessories
In the past couple of years the discipline of material innovation has seen an increasing number of interdisciplinary collaborations which are producing new exciting…
Insight: Soliquid, experimenting with new morphologies
3D Printing is an increasingly popular fabrication technique – we are witnessing a multitude of materials, from plastic to bio-resin, machines such as small 3D…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CHRISTINA HAXHOLM, exploring ideological forecasts for the future
Over the last couple of years, the fashion and textile industry has taken a great interest in the new possibilities that the biotechnology industry is…
Exhibition: ‘Material Far Futures’ at The Future Laboratory
The materials of tomorrow will be smarter, stronger, more dynamic and less ecologically damaging. But how will future materials change the design of our products?…
Architectures, Design, News, Scout & Trends
Talk: ‘Blending the Digital and the Material: current trends in fashion, design and material innovation’ Soho House BCN
In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world he was…
Exhibition: ‘ARTEFACT FOOTWEAR, FUTURES’ at London Design Festival 2018
Every September London Design Festival takes over London with a nine-day celebration, comprising of over 400 different events, exhibitions and installations. Established in 2003,…
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Dawns, Mine, Crystal, Yunchul Kim, Korean Cultural Centre London, 18 September – 3 November 2018 The Korean Cultural Centre, London (KCCUK) presents Dawns, Mine, Crystal, the first UK…
ANASTASIA PISTOFIDOU, gesturing between ourselves and the natural world
When Anastasia Pistofidou* moved from Greece to Spain in 2010 to study at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), she already had…
Exhibition: ‘Biolace’ by Carole Collet at museum Texture in Kortrijk
Carole Collet, Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures at Central Saint Martins, London -and previously featured in CLOT Magazine- has been conducting research that blends…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
HELENE STEINER, manipulating the natural world
At this particular moment, Helene Steiner is the CCO of Cell-Free Technology, a company that makes biocomputers capable of sequencing and analyzing DNA, which she…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
RICHARD BECKETT, challenging the aesthetics of human structures and objects
Richard Beckett is a London-based architect and designer, and co-founder of BiotA Lab and Syn.De.Bio (Synthetic Design Biotopes) where his creativity has nourished with…
Open Cell, Reinventing the lab in Shepherd’s Bush
Open Cell is a new collaborative space for bio designers in Shepherd’s Bush London. Aiming to support the London ecosystem of designers and scientists…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews
LIZ CIOKAJLO, Caskia / Growing a Mars Boot
During the Gemini IX-A manned spaceflight in 1966, Eugene Cernan performed one of the first extravehicular activities (EVA), or spacewalks. As part of an…