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 - to explore how food generates both calorifc (Joules) & electrical energy (Watts) & how this parallel can be taken into account when evaluating ecosystems.
 - to learn from traditional crafts, biology, biomimicry & food science to design environmentally resilient cultural experiences.
-- "The Resilients"
-The starting point are plants with properties suitable for making food, textiles & solar cells (e.g berries). Local ethno-culinary traditions, biological & ecological context of the chosen plant is studied and a scenario for an “edible” dining environment is designed. The experiment should be transferrable to different localities in Europe. The project starts in June 2011 and will last for 2 years.  “Bio Lace: An Exploration of the Potential of Synthetic Biology for Future Textiles”
+The starting point are plants with properties suitable for making food, textiles & solar cells (e.g berries). Local ethno-culinary traditions, biological & ecological context of the chosen plant is studied and a scenario for an ‘edible’ dining environment is designed. The experiment should be transferrable to different localities in Europe. The project starts in June 2011 and will last for 2 years.
-I am currently developing a speculative design-led research project that investigates the intersection of synthetic biology and textile design to propose future fabrication processes for textile products and textile architecture. The project is designed to probe the potential of a biological manufacturing future by exploring the cellular programming of morphogenesis in plant systems. “Bio Lace” aims at translating synthetic biology into accessible design scenarios to expose and understand the societal implications of new emerging living technologies derived from scientific research. The “Bio Lace” project poses the following questions:
-Can synthetic biology become a potential sustainable technology for future textile manufacturing? Can we programme and code cellular growth in plants so as to embed morphology into material systems? Will crafting molecules become a new way to produce textiles?
+====== Research ======
+**Mushroom Packaging**
+"Packaging materials that are 100% renewable, and primarily made from agricultural byproducts and mycelium, a fungal network of threadlike cells. It’s like the “roots” of mushrooms. In 5 – 7 days, in the dark, with no watering, and no petrochemical inputs, the mycelium digests the agricultural byproducts, binding them into a beautiful structural material. The mycelium acts like a natural, self assembling glue. These low-embodied energy materials can be home composted when they’re no longer needed. This technology is a radical departure from traditional bioplastics. While feedstocks for bioplastics are typically food crops, we’re able to upcycle very low value waste products." - [[http://www.ecovativedesign.com|company site > ecovative design]]
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+====== Further reading ======
-Carole Collet is Course Director MA Textile Futures, Reader and Deputy Director Textile Futures Research Centre at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts in London, England. She has been a visionary in the field of future forward textiles and creates cutting edge research which tests the limits of what we may soon experience as everyday pliable material substrates. With a keen eye for science, speculative design, innovation and environmental engagement Carole took us through some of the design research presently being developed at Textiles Futures for the Test_Lab “Clothing without Cloth”.
+Interview with Carole Collet - http://www.3lectromode.com/?p=343
-Bartaku is an artist/researcher
------ Research -----
-Packaging the edible craft:
-"Packaging materials that are 100% renewable, and primarily made from agricultural byproducts and mycelium, a fungal network of threadlike cells. It’s like the “roots” of mushrooms. In 5 – 7 days, in the dark, with no watering, and no petrochemical inputs, the mycelium digests the agricultural byproducts, binding them into a beautiful structural material. The mycelium acts like a natural, self assembling glue. These low-embodied energy materials can be home composted when they’re no longer needed. This technology is a radical departure from traditional bioplastics. While feedstocks for bioplastics are typically food crops, we’re able to upcycle very low value waste products." - http://www.ecovativedesign.com/
+MA Future Textiles, Central Saint Martins, University of London -  http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/ma-textile-futures/