Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit

Here’s a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even…

Michael Pawlyn – Using nature’s genius in architecture

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of…

Mitchell Joachim [Terreform ONE] – Don’t build your home, grow it!

Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day’s work for urban designer, architect and…

Rachel Armstrong – Architecture that repairs itself?

Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well,…

Emma van der Leest – Growing the next generation of biodesigners

Emma van der Leest dives into biodesign: the cross pollination between science, design & technology. How nature’s sustainable materials could…

Eben Bayer [Ecovative] – Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma…

Andras Forgacs – Leather and meat without killing animals

By 2050, it will take 100 billion land animals to provide the world’s population with meat, dairy, eggs and leather…

Natsai Audrey Chieza – Fashion has a pollution problem – can biology fix it?

Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission — to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while creating amazing…

Suzanne Lee – Why ‘biofabrication’ is the next industrial revolution

      What if we could “grow” clothes from microbes, furniture from living organisms and buildings with exteriors like…

Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature – Ginsberg, Calvert, Schyfter, Elfick, Endy

Summary Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral…