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Visual of Next Generation: Launching the Eva Biodesign Lab with Carlos Silveira

Next Generation: Launching the Eva Biodesign Lab with Carlos Silveira

This story is part of  Next Generation , a series in which we give young makers a platform to showcase their work. Your work here?  Get in touch  and plot your …

Visual of Join the Next Nature Talkshow on biodesign!

Join the Next Nature Talkshow on biodesign!

A living lamp that you need to feed, a tapestry made of animal waste streams and tableware made from algae. Welcome to the wonderful world of biodesign.

Visual of In conversation with Teresa van Dongen, biodesigner exploring natural forms of artificial light

In conversation with Teresa van Dongen, biodesigner exploring natural forms of artificial light

There was a time when flipping the switch, and seeing a glass bulb light up, was magical to anyone in the world. Today, the presence of a light switch in a room, is something …

Visual of Experience biodesign at DDW19

Experience biodesign at DDW19

Bio design crosses the border between the ‘made’ and the ‘born’. Enabling living organisms as essential design elements, it brings us products that adapt, grow, sense and repair …

Visual of THRIVE: an expo in designing nature and growing technology

THRIVE: an expo in designing nature and growing technology

THRIVE expo showcases the latest works at the convergence of art, design, and biology, which examine current and future uses of biotechnology.

Visual of Next Generation: Tasting Landless Food with Malu Luecking

Next Generation: Tasting Landless Food with Malu Luecking

Regeneration of extinct flavor families via microalgae 

Visual of Suzanne Lee wants to live in a world that uses only sustainable materials

Suzanne Lee wants to live in a world that uses only sustainable materials

Biotechnology is nearly as old as humanity itself. The food you eat and the pets you love? You can thank our ancestors for kickstarting the agricultural revolution, using …

Visual of Next Generation: Changing the oceans chemistry with Santa Ramaherison

Next Generation: Changing the oceans chemistry with Santa Ramaherison

This story is part of  Next Generation , a series in which we give young makers a platform to showcase their work. Your work here?  Get in touch  and plot your …

Visual of Next Generation: Designing a living menstrual cup with Lucrezia Alessandroni

Next Generation: Designing a living menstrual cup with Lucrezia Alessandroni

What if living objects could re-connect humans with their menstrual cycle and change the way we perceive it?

Visual of Meet Kaia the CO2 filtering lamp

Meet Kaia the CO2 filtering lamp

Did you know that we owe every second breath we take to the algae in the sea? And that minerals have been absorbing CO2 for billions of years while converting it into important …

Visual of The Internet of Mycelium

The Internet of Mycelium

A lot of the ground we live on is polluted. More than a third of our soils are moderately or heavily degraded; heavy metals such as lead are increasingly found in urban soils, …

Visual of This machine makes human clouds

This machine makes human clouds

Humans have been changing the composition of the atmosphere for years, resulting in concerns such as air pollution and extreme climate events. According to Filips Stanislavskis , …

Visual of Next Generation: Exploring blood, salt and iron as biomaterials with Hedwich Rooks

Next Generation: Exploring blood, salt and iron as biomaterials with Hedwich Rooks

This story is part of  Next Generation , a series in which we give young makers a platform to showcase their work. Your work here? Get in touch: magazine@nextnature.net. …

Visual of Five things not to miss at Floriade

Five things not to miss at Floriade

Here are 5 things you cannot miss at Floriade Expo 2022

Visual of Next Generation: Adorning bio embellishments with Aradhita Parasrampuria

Next Generation: Adorning bio embellishments with Aradhita Parasrampuria

This story is part of  Next Generation , a series in which we give young makers a platform to showcase their work. Your work here?  Get in touch  and plot your …

Visual of Fermenting Futures and the beauty of biotechnology

Fermenting Futures and the beauty of biotechnology

Exploring the co-evolution of yeast and humans, while discovering the aesthetic value of yeast biotechnology, is what designers Anna Dumitriu and Alex May have been concocting. …

Visual of Next Generation: Mending mycelium with Emma Huffman

Next Generation: Mending mycelium with Emma Huffman

This story is part of  Next Generation , a series in which we give young makers a platform to showcase their work. Your work here?  Get in touch  and plot your …

Visual of Next Generation: Designing ecological webs with Miriam Lellek

Next Generation: Designing ecological webs with Miriam Lellek

This story is part of  Next Generation , a series in which we give young makers a platform to showcase their work. Your work here?  Get in touch  and plot your …

Visual of Next Generation: Fantasising about fashion with ShirpShiro

Next Generation: Fantasising about fashion with ShirpShiro

Finding realistic solutions to the humanitarian and environmental issues in the textile and fashion industries.

Visual of Building Floriade 2022

Building Floriade 2022

We met at the Floriade grounds in Almere with Xander de Bruine, program manager Floriade Expo 2022, with project manager Jennifer Palumbo. Along with head curator William Myers we …

Visual of Bio textiles: meet three designers reimagining materials using biotechnology

Bio textiles: meet three designers reimagining materials using biotechnology

The world needs interdisciplinary creators who are designing not just for humans, but for the rest of the living planet. To foster this thinking, Biodesign Challenge (BDC) pairs …

Visual of Beyond biomimicry: a new urgency

Beyond biomimicry: a new urgency

Designers face an unprecedented urgency to alter their methods and reprioritize their goals to address the accelerating degradation of the environment. This new …

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Nature Loves Technology

We interviewed William Myers and Emma van der Leest, curators of Nature Loves Technology, our exhibition at Floriade 2022

Visual of The Biofabricate Summit '24 is coming to Paris!

The Biofabricate Summit '24 is coming to Paris!

Biosequin, seaweed textiles, and microbe sunscreen: these ideas and more are marking the next wave of bio-innovators during the Biofabricate Summit 2024.

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Cooking with mycelium

Researchers from the University of Colorado created a recipe book to cook with mycelium.

Visual of Lessons in bio design from Emma van der Leest

Lessons in bio design from Emma van der Leest

As a young bio designer at the start of your career, you'll have to overtake all kinds of obstacles. From the collection of living materials to working in a laboratory and …

Visual of Discover the art of the living at Centre Pompidou

Discover the art of the living at Centre Pompidou

Go forward to nature at the La Fabrique du Vivant (the Factory of Life), the newly opened exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Exhibiting the recent works of fifty …

Visual of 9 creatives in biotech you need to know right now

9 creatives in biotech you need to know right now

The field of biofabrication is still new to most people. As founder and CEO of Biofabricate, Suzanne Lee shared with us this exciting online event series Creatives in Biotech . If …

Visual of Printing houses with cow poop

Printing houses with cow poop

Now here's a perspective: a pooping cow is like a living 3D printer

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Join us at the Embassy of Food Conference

Promising food design projects do not always find their way to producers, the market and ultimately to consumers. Why is that and what can we do to advance these ideas? Why is it …

Visual of Next Generation: Designing chairs with mealworms and Will Eliot

Next Generation: Designing chairs with mealworms and Will Eliot

William Eliot designs chairs while collaborating with mealworms.

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Entryparadise

Written by Werner Lippert & Peter Wippermann, Curators of the Entryparadise exhibition (26/8 until 3/12, 2006, at Kohlenwäsche, Zollverein) Design is about to undergo a …

Visual of Interview: Suzanne Lee, Fashion Innovator Who Grows Clothing in the Laboratory

Interview: Suzanne Lee, Fashion Innovator Who Grows Clothing in the Laboratory

We recently talked with Suzanne Lee about the textile industry and technology, growing leather in the lab, and the use of new alternative materials in the future of fashion.

Visual of 6 designers changing the future of fashion

6 designers changing the future of fashion

We live in a world of fast or disposable fashion. This industry is increasingly impacting the environment due to the use of toxic chemicals, water and energy consumption, heavy …

Visual of Why there is a new urgency for speculative design

Why there is a new urgency for speculative design

Pink chickens, synthesized tiger penises and salads grown from bodily fluids - how could they shape our future? In a Next Nature collaboration with the Gogbot Festival, the …

Visual of Next Generation: Simulating textile ecosystems with Scarlett Yang

Next Generation: Simulating textile ecosystems with Scarlett Yang

This story is part of Next Generation , a series in which we give young makers a platform to showcase their work. Your work here? Get in touch and plot your coordinates as we …

Visual of Emma van der Leest wins ECO Coin Award 2022

Emma van der Leest wins ECO Coin Award 2022

Each year we search the globe for people and projects that have outstandingly contributed to make this planet a more sustainable place and honour them with our  ECO Coin …

Visual of The No(nhuman) Consent Form

The No(nhuman) Consent Form

There seems to be a green shift happening in Dutch Design, where the traditional vision is slowly sprouting into a newer, more refreshing one. The biodesigners are emerging from …

Visual of Nurturing architecture

Nurturing architecture

The way we currently build is not sustainable. We will have to develop a sustainable living environment that matches our human needs, intuitions and potential.