Designing with Organisms
Art, design and bioculture
We're building an urban farm, experimenting with new forms of energy, and exploring biotechnology and eco-culture through art, community and design.
MartaXylinum
A stool of spores
What could future materials and production processes be like?
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The properties of this material can be adjusted by changing the genetic code of the organisms.
Photo by Samuel Henne, found on http://www.jannishuelsen.com/?/work/xylium/ [Jannis Huelsen's] website
Jannis Huelsen's project is based on a bacterium which produces an artificial cellulose material. This bacterium counsumes sugar and builds a cellulose fibre structure around any given form. Since the process takes place in a nutrition liquid, the wet material can be dryed later on, resulting in a durable and 100 % biodegradable material. The properties of this material can be adjusted by changing the genetic code of the organisms. In collaboration with the company Jenpolymers , a technique was developed to create a »skin« around a wooden stool frame, f...
BarbaraEvery first Tuesday of the month, few Amsterdam based organizations organize a meeting about sustainability. Every time a different aspect of theme of this matter are discussed by a small but interested group of people, mainly professionals and students.
Yesterday I attended one of these meeting and the subject was "sustainable materials".
Dinsdag is a series of events organized by the Dutch organization Aim to Sustain, supported by the City of Amsterdam.
You might ask yourself at this point, what this have to do with mushrooms and moulds? Well, actually NOTHING!
I attended the meeting hoping to have a revelation and discover revolutionary materials infected by bacteria and viruses. This didn't happen; however I learned other interesting things I'd like to share here.
Els Zijlstra, Director of dutch company Materia g...
Anna
Maurizio
Sander
