Bio Design

A happy marriage between biology and technology

Bio design crosses the border between the ‘made’ and the ‘born’. Enabling living organisms as essential design elements, it bring us products that adapt, grow, sense and repair themselves. Industrial and mechanical systems are replaced with biological processes. Bio design overtakes imitation and biomimicry, completely dissolving the boundaries between organisms and objects. A happy marriage between biology and technology.

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Here's MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito explaining how biotech is rapidly becoming more accessible to creative people outside of closed institutions, drawing parallels to the democratization of computers some decades ago. Be sure to watch the video until his last sweeping sentence "The design of the future is hardware, it's software, it's biology and it's complex.. But you have to know math."