A photographic archive of the works in exhibition. All images are courtesy of Laurent Lecat, Fondation EDF.

The Plagiarists

Works:

To mimic a living metabolism: Radiant Soil, PHILIP BEESLEY

To mimic patterns in plant growth to produce architectural structures: The Rise, CITA

To mimic the fabrication of pearls: Pearling, EMILE DE VISSCHER

To mimic the responsive behaviour of a pine cone: Techno Naturology, ELAINE NG YAN LING

To mimic human cell behaviour: eSkin, JENNY E. SABIN

The New Artisans

Works:

To print health food: Algaerium Bioprinter, MARIN SAWA

To grow a house: Fab Tree Hab Village, Living Graft Prefab Structure, TERREFORM ONE

To grow a shoe: The Biocouture Shoe, SUZANNE LEE (ART DIRECTOR), LIZ CIOKAJLO-SQUIRE, AARON LAMPERT,THOMAS MAKRYNIOTIS

To make a chair: Yamanaka Furniture, PHIL ROSS

To harvest energy: Biophotovoltaic Moss Table, CARLOS PERALTA, ALEX DRIVER, PAOLO BOMBELLI

To sculpt a vase with honey bees: Vessel #1, TOMÁŠ LIBERTÍNY

To engineer a living system: HORTUS.PARIS: The Machinic Harvest, ECOLOGICSTUDIO

To design a living factory: Botanical Factory: design and botany workshop, CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE / ENSCI LES ATELIERS

The Bio-hackers

Works:

To document a future synthetic world: Post Natural History, VINCENT FOURNIER

To design a future garden tool: Growth Assembly, ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG, SASCHA POHFLEPP

To develop a self-diagnostic medical tool kit: E. chromi, ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG, JAMES KING, IGEM CAMBRIDGE TEAM 2009

To biofacture packaging with synthetic bacteria: Packaging That Creates Its Contents, WILL CAREY, ADAM REINECK (DESIGNERS), REID WILLIAMS, WENDELL LIM (SCIENTISTS)

To biofacture a chair: Gen2Seat, Genetic Generation Module, TERREFORM ONE + GENSPACE

To biofacture colours for textiles: FABER Futures, NATSAI CHIEZA

To biofacture textiles: Biolace, CAROLE COLLET

To programme architecture: Bio Computation, DAVID BENJAMIN

To biofacture food for space: Seasons of the Void, ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG, SASCHA POHFLEPP, ANDREW STELLITANO

The New Alchemists

Works:

To imagine future agricultural drones: Robotic jellyfish drone [Cyanea Machina], VINCENT FOURNIER

To design responsive movements in plants: Nanomagnetic Plants, LAURA CINTI C-LAB

To paint with protocells: ‘When I Feel Like Nature May Give Up’, CHRISTIAN KERRIGAN

To save Venice: Future Venice: growing an artificial reef under the city, RACHEL ARMSTRONG

To make a shoe with protocells: Amoeba Shoe, SHAMEES ADEN

The Agents Provocateurs

Works:

To re-design a cactus: The Cactus Project, LAURA CINTI C-LAB

To re-design skin: Biological Atelier, AMY CONGDON

To re-design plants: Plant Fiction: Self Eater (Agave Autovora), TROIKA

To re-design humans: The Incredible Shrinking Man, ARNE HENDRIKS

To re-design housekeepers: Skin Sucka, NANCY TILBURY, CLIVE VAN HEERDEN, JACK MAMA, BART HESS, HARM RENSINK, PETER GAL, SCANNER