Digital biofabrication to realize the potentials of plant roots for product design

Zhou, Jiwei; Barati, Bahareh; Wu, Jun; Scherer, Diana; Karana, Elvin

doi:10.1007/s42242-020-00088-2

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“…Since environmental conditions were directly linked to silk production, they could spread the fibers homogenously as they intended. Zhou et al, uses plant roots to test digital biofabrication strategies for product design purposes [ 14 ]. They fabricate self-supported 3D structures by altering the growth media, direction of gravity and porosity of their digitally fabricated mold.…”

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Are Mushrooms Parametric?

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Designing with biological materials as a burgeoning approach in the architecture field requires the development of new design strategies and fabrication methods. In this paper, we question if designers can use a parametric design approach while working with living materials. The research uses fungi as a biomaterial probe to experiment with the parametric behavior of living systems. Running design experiments using fungi helps to understand the extent to which biological systems can be considered parametric and, if so, what kind of parametric systems they are. Answering these questions provides a method to work with complex biological systems and may lead to new approaches of fabricating materials by tuning the environmental parameters of biological growth.

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“…They fabricate self-supported 3D structures by altering the growth media, direction of gravity and porosity of their digitally fabricated mold. These variables allowed them to manipulate plant roots, since the nutritional richness and the force of gravity have an impact on the root growth [ 14 ].…”

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“…Fungi are explored to grow leather-like material (Jones et al, 2021) or to make wearables reactive (Adamatzky et al, 2021). Plants are explored to grow textiles from roots (Zhou et al, 2020), as a dynamic material for textile design (Keune, 2018) and to explore ways of living between the inside and the outside (Keune, 2019).…”

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Designing and Living with Organisms Weaving Entangled Worlds as Doing Multispecies Philosophy

Keune

2021

Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice

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The emergence of biodesign opens new ways for textile design and production processes by e.g. using living organisms directly for growing or dyeing textiles. Researchers and designers who engage in such practices often describe their processes as a collaboration with the living. Since maintenance or acts of caring are often fundamental for a successful result, supportive environments for the living are created. However, most of the organisms are only used to carry out a specific task given by the designers' intention, e.g., excreting pigments to dye a piece of silk, and are killed after the successful completion of the "collaborative" project, which is one of the reasons why the anthropocentric perspective remains an integral part of the textile design process. This research aims to challenge the anthropocentrism inherent in textile design methodologies. Drawing from the work of Donna Haraway, in this exploratory paper, I Svenja Keune obtained her PhD with "On Textile Farming" within the ArcInTexETN and recently started her position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås, Sweden. She received recently an international postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council for "Designing and Living with Organisms (DLO)". Her research explores textiles as mediators between people and the natural environment, for example by integrating plants into textile structures; another aspect of her research examines the perspectives open up by relating textile design to spatial design, hortitecture, agriculture, permaculture and environmental philosophy.

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“…Biodesign as an approach has been adopted by many, broad felds, including fashion, architecture and art [11]. However, biodesign is becoming more interactive and relevant to HCI, through examples of bio-digital hybrid computational systems [16], shape-changing clothing [17], novel material fabrication [18], grown robots [12], new materials for prototyping interactive systems [7] and public interactive displays [8].…”

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Speculating on Biodesign in the Future Home

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Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The home is a place of shelter, a place for family, and for separation from other parts of life, such as work. Global challenges, the most pressing of which are currently the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change has forced extra roles into many homes and will continue to do so in the future. Biodesign integrates living organisms into designed solutions and can ofer opportunities for new kinds of technologies to facilitate a transition to the home of the future. Many families have had to learn to work alongside each other, and technology has mediated a transition from standard models of operation for industries. These are the challenges of the 21st century that mandate careful thinking around interactive systems and innovations that support new ways of living and working at home. In this workshop, we will explore opportunities for biodesign interactive systems in the future home. We will bring together a broad group of researchers in HCI, design, and biosciences to build the biodesign community and discuss speculative design futures. The outcome will generate an understanding of the role of interactive biodesign systems at home, as a place with extended functionalities. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms; HCI theory, concepts and models;• Applied computing → Life and medical sciences.

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Digital biofabrication to realize the potentials of plant roots for product design

Cited by 25 publications

References 45 publications

Are Mushrooms Parametric?

Are Mushrooms Parametric?

Designing and Living with Organisms Weaving Entangled Worlds as Doing Multispecies Philosophy

Speculating on Biodesign in the Future Home

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