I am thrilled to report that the winning Biodesign Challenge Team coming out of Rutgers is Soil:P the living prescription for all your urban soil needs Soil:P seeks to identify and support the living communities of microbes in urban soils. Our project was inspired by hands-on work identifying soil microbes in our lab, the State … Continue reading Soil:P Rutgers Biodesign Team Winners 2023…
News and Updates
Cosmologies of Care: International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Paris 2023
This spring I had the pleasure of presenting some of my work with living systems at International Symposium of Electronic Arts. This panel included Carlos Castellanos, Mariana Perez Bobadilla/Maro Pebo and myself and was titled Cosmologies of Care: Epistemological and Ontological repositioning of Symbiotic Relationships in Art and Living Systems. Our talk offered examples of … Continue reading Cosmologies of Care: International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Paris 2023…
Biodesign Challenge winner from Rutgers is Yeasties: Protein to the People
I am thrilled and honored to report that this year the Biodesign Challenge winner from Rutgers is the project Yeasties: Protein to the People. And they are presenting today via live stream at: https://biodesignchallenge.org/summit-2020. The presentations usually take place at a closed summit at NY MOMA. However, because the summit was moved to a virtual space, … Continue reading Biodesign Challenge winner from Rutgers is Yeasties: Protein to the People…
Rutgers Finalists at BDC 2019 MOMA Symposium
I’m thrilled to report that the Biodesign Group at Rutgers was a finalist at the 2019 Symposium at MOMA. Four undergrads from Rutgers Camden presented their project to 60 judges in the field of biodesign. The thoughtful, well researched presentation and the humorous supporting video, brought down the house! The project overview/slides and text is … Continue reading Rutgers Finalists at BDC 2019 MOMA Symposium…
Biodesign Challenge: Group Projects from 2019
For the Biodesign Challenge students from top universities around the world spend the semester envisioning how cells, microbes, and other living things can remake the products and processes of our made world. At Rutgers this past semester students authored projects that focused on water, food, materials, energy, medicine, and others areas where biological design could … Continue reading Biodesign Challenge: Group Projects from 2019…
Camden Colorfield Project
HI Everybody, For Earth Day this year the Art and Urban Sustainability Group will be doing a day-long seed ball making workshop in front of the student center on 4/24 from 10:00AM to 4:00PM. The seed balls, which the group is naming “Earth Balls” will be colored and contain a corresponding hue of indigenous wildflowers … Continue reading Camden Colorfield Project…