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  • The Plagiarists

    Nature as a model

    Here we present designers and architects who look to nature for inspiring role models and new engineering solutions. They work with biomimicry principles, imitating processes or behaviour found in the natural world, but working with man-made and digital technologies.

    • beesley_hero

      Radiant Soil

      • Philip Beesley
    • Cita, The Rise, 2013

      The Rise

      • CITA
    • Pearling

      • Emile de Visscher
    • Super LUX 3

      Techno Naturology

      • Elaine Ng Yan Ling
    • eskin

      eSkin

      • Jenny E. Sabin
  • The New Artisans

    Nature as a co-worker

    These designers and architects collaborate with nature. They work with bees, fungi, bacteria, algae or plants and develop new techniques to grow and craft consumer goods. Here, design relates more to gardening and farming than to manufacturing.

    • Algaerium Bioprinter

      • Marin Sawa
    • FabTreeHab

      Fab Tree Hab Village, Living Graft Prefab Structure

      • Terreform One
    • shoe

      The Biocouture Shoe

      • Suzanne Lee (art director), Liz Ciokajlo-Squire, Aaron Lampert,Thomas Makryniotis
    • Yamanaka Furniture

      • Phil Ross
    • mosstable

      Biophotovoltaic Moss Table

      • Carlos Peralta, Alex Driver, Paolo Bombelli
    • beevase

      Vessel #1

      • Tomáš Libertíny
    • The New Alchemists: Nature as a co-worker

      HORTUS.PARIS: The Machinic Harvest

      • EcoLogicStudio
    • Botanical Factory: design and botany workshop

      • Central Saint Martins College / ENSCI Les Ateliers
  • The Bio-Hackers

    Reprogrammed, ‘synthetic’ nature

    These designers and artists work in collaboration with synthetic biologists or respond to cutting-edge scientific research in the field of extreme bioengineering. They imagine what the products and interfaces of the future could become with the use of engineered living organisms. Their ideas illustrate a possible future world.

    • post-natural-history-1

      Post Natural History

      • Vincent Fournier
    • 1 Gourd

      Growth Assembly

      • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Sascha Pohflepp
    • scatalog_case_open_side

      E. chromi

      • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, James King, iGEM Cambridge team 2009
    • 10_Packaging_Creates_Contents_1

      Packaging That Creates Its Contents

      • Will carey, Adam Reineck (designers), Reid Williams, Wendell Lim (Scientists)
    • TF1_BIO_BOARDS_ALLHIGHRES

      Gen2Seat, Genetic Generation Module

      • Terreform ONE + Genspace
    • NatsaiChieza_FaberFutures_20

      FABER futures

      • NATSAI CHIEZA
    • STRAWBERRY NOIR

      Biolace

      • Carole Collet
    • 04-The-Living-Bio-Computation

      BIO COMPUTATION

      • DAVID BENJAMIN
    • Seasons of the Void catalog - Fruit

      Seasons of the Void

      • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Sascha Pohflepp, Andrew Stellitano
  • The New Alchemists

    Hybridised nature

    Here, designers, architects and artists propose to explore the merging of biology, chemistry, robotics and nanotechnology to create new hybrid organisms. They combine living (biological) with non-living (electronic and chemical) technology.

    • RoboticJellyfish

      Robotic jellyfish drone [Cyanea Machina]

      • Vincent Fournier
    • NanomagneticPlants03

      Nanomagnetic Plants

      • Laura Cinti C-LAB
    • ChristianKerrigan04

      ‘When I Feel Like Nature May Give Up’

      • Christian Kerrigan
    • Future Venice: growing an artificial reef under the city

      • Rachel Armstrong
    • ShameesAden

      Amoeba Shoe

      • Shamees Aden
  • The Agents Provocateurs

    Conceptualised and imagined nature.

    This final group of artists and designers explores a provocative far future. Their work encourages a debate around ethical issues related to living technology and high-tech sustainability.

    • CactusProject42_42

      The Cactus Project

      • Laura Cinti C-Lab
    • AmyCongdon

      Biological Atelier

      • Amy Congdon
    • TR - 1003TROI25 - Self Eater - Artwork 001

      Plant Fiction: Self Eater (Agave Autovora)

      • Troika
    • The Incredible Shrinking Man

      • Arne Hendriks
    • DSC_9177SkinSucka

      Skin Sucka

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