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…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
SUZANNE LEE, pioneering the world of biofabrication
Suzanne Lee needs little introduction as a pioneer in the fabrication of consumer materials from biomedia. Since the early aughts, Lee has carved herself…
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…
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…
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…
SIMON PARK, the art of revealing microbial life
Dr Simon Park, a bacteriologist by training, creates artistic works using the natural creativity of these powerful microorganisms. Park, a senior lecturer in Molecular Biology…
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…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
ANDREW PELLING, growing ears on apples
From unusual and extraordinary perspectives is how projects get started in the laboratory of Andrew Pelling, a place where the highest values are curiosity…
WHITEFEATHER, biomanufacturing and new ways of thinking
The creative universe of interdisciplinary Canadian artist and researcher WhiteFeather encompasses life sciences and engineering to create cutting-edge projects using materials such as human…
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
JAIME TAI, building facts and ideas into tangible multi-layered scenarios
Central Saint Martins MA Material Futures graduate and designer-researcher hybrid, Jaime Tai, is blurring the boundaries between design and science, building facts and ideas into tangible…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARLENE HUISSOUD, recycling waste into new materials
Recycling waste into new materials and products is one of the most favourable actions that we are willing to do in order to be…
MEITAL TZABARI, how to develop a sustainable material made from pressed fallen leaves
I met Meital Tzabari —Israeli London-based furniture and product designer and maker— at the Designersblock exhibition during London Design Festival 2014. There she showed me…
ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU, using raw materials to weave pastizales
My first exposure to Alexandra’s work was at Dries Van Noten Spring 2015 RTW Fashion Show. Based in Argentina and with an intense cultural…