Phillipa Beale dreams of true science fictions in the convergence of biology, technology and art. She loves ambiguity, complexity, continuous transitions and soft edges. Phillipa resists categorisation. She is trained as a biologist and her interdisciplinary research traverses scales from within a mitochondria to the workings of a forest. She loves how understanding the functioning of an organism can completely reorient our view of life itself. She has shifted her focus from scientific research to creative work as a bio-designer and bio-artist, pushing the boundaries of what we know and desire for a future where humans connect with nature in new ways.