• Urban Algae Folly in Braga/Portugal

    by  • November 2, 2015

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    An interactive urban algae farming pavilion, a testbed of future bio-digital architecture.  In connection to the INL Summit and The Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation’s fifth national meeting “Science in three acts” INL has taken the initiative to engage ecoLogicStudio – ELS. ELS will relocation and integrate the Urban Algae Folly from Expo Milano 2015 in the city of Braga on PRAÇA DA REPÚBLICA. The Folly will act as a testbed and catalyst for rethinking urban “metabolism”.

    The Urban Algae Folly by ecoLogicStudio is the world’s first living architecture integrating micro-algal cultures and real-time digital cultivation protocols within a soft ETFE skin. The proposed Folly will operate as a test bed for a new vision of future bio-digital architecture for the city of Braga.

    The UAF was first unveiled at EXPO Milan 2015 as part of the Future Food District and will be repurposed here to fit the urban landscape of Praça da República as well as to address the urban metabolism of the city itself.

    Credit to: COOP and Expo Milano 2015

    Iberian Nano Laboratory is exploring how nanotechnology can add sensing power to our cities.

    Panel Discussion – Science and the Creative Industry/Art/Media

    by  • November 2, 2015

    What opportunities and bizarre quantum worlds does nanotechnology offer artists and scientists? “Scale Travels” is a panel on how to set up collaborations between scientists and artists in order to communicate the nanoscale. Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | 21.00 Place: GNration, Praça Conde de Agrolongo, Braga. Introduction by Ricardo Rio Mayor of Braga Participants: Pedro Branco, University...

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    Coming Up: INL Summit 2015 – “Scale Travels”

    by  • October 12, 2015

    INL SUMMIT 2015 – SCALE TRAVELS* Date: November 10-11, 2015 Place: Iberian Nano Laboratory, Braga/Portugal Bioinspired Forum is co-producing the International Iberian Nano Laboratory’s first Summit 2015 in Braga/Portugal. The INL Summit will become an annual event putting nanotechnology in motion in society, industry and business. The event is part of a long-term strategy...

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    The event is postponed: The Material Gap 2015

    by  • December 17, 2014

    Designing the Future of Food – Novel Biomaterials and Flavors of Data Place: Science enables designers to interact with, and even program, living systems – it’s alive and kickin! We have entered an era in which we reinvent what food is through science, data and new business models combining elements. Biomass production with bio-digital...

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    The Material Gap 2014: Light Reflexions February 4 in Stockholm

    by  • January 20, 2014

    Welcome to The Material Gap 2014 LIGHT REFLEXIONS Digital Light – a Field of Possibilities? Invitation Material Gap 2014 This year’s The Material Gap will highlight new conceptual avenues for the medium light far beyond its capacity to shine on us. INVITATION Welcome to the seminar at Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden. February 4 2014...

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    The Material Gap 2013: IN-OUT : Berns in Stockholm, February 5

    by  • January 26, 2013

    The Material Gap 2013: IN | OUT Place: Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden Date: 5 February, 2013 Time: 18.00 – ca 19.30 Facebook Event Invitation Material Gap 2013 We continue our series of events aiming towards establishing a long term platform for knowledge sharing between cutting edge material research and design/architecture. Material research dissolves all...

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    Pending Project – A Seaweed (Algae) Cookbook for Sweden.

    by  • January 5, 2013

    Bioinspired forum is now completing the first cookbook about seaweeds that can be found around the Swedish coast. The interest of eating seaweeds (or macro algae) is now increasing also outside Asian countries. The popularity of eating locally harvested seaweeds has increased in both North America and Europe.

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    Bioinspired Forum – From Laboratory to Concept

    by  • December 9, 2012 • 0 Comments

    erc_25_1355182249 Bioinspired Forum – From Laboratory to Concept “Objects of Fiction” Date: Tuesday August 28, 2012 Time: 12.00 – 18.00, hållBAR from 18.00 Place: The Swedish Museum of Architecture We start with a light lunch 12.00-13.00 This meeting is part of a long term aim to transfer knowledge from the material research laboratories to...

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