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BioFabricate
BIOFABRICATE is an annual summit for the emerging world of grown materials. From yeast and bacteria to mushrooms and mammalian cells, international attendees discover disruptive research and companies literally growing the materials of the future. From fashion and textiles to automotive and architecture, the conference is an opportunity to hear how biotechnology is facilitating a new material revolution. Biofabrication, originally a biomedical term, imagines a world of material manufacture where future consumer products are designed and grown by harnessing biological organisms.
The world of biofabrication is being shaped by a range of researchers from design, biology and technology via industry, academia and open source communities. Bio-innovation is emerging from biotech startups, biohacker groups and collaborative initiatives. Biofabricate embraces a diversity of responsible approaches including synbio investigation and artisanal practitioners. This is a new design paradigm centered on cultivating materials with living cells. Organisms such as yeast, bacteria, fungi, algae and mammalian cells are fermented, cultured and engineered to synthesize natures materials but with new functional and aesthetic properties.
At the intersection of design, science, urban agriculture, brewing, cooking, 3d printing, making, even gardening, living cells are the becoming the factories of the future. From the most ancient methods of culturing products to the latest techniques in synthetic biology, we’re starting to reimagine our surrounding world through a biological lens.
Founded in 2014 by Suzanne Lee of Biocouture, a NASA/Nike Material Innovator and TED Senior Fellow, the aim is to nurture collaboration, share knowledge, build community and accelerate innovation.
Website: www.biofabricate.co
