BIOfutures :: BIOdigital

​On May 19th, The Bartlett’s Assoc. Prof. Richard Beckett joined me in the conversation to discuss how advances in biodigital technologies, together with new insights into the microbiology of homes and cities might shape our future built environments. We delved into why new approaches and insights are enabling us to work with living systems in ways that might help us mitigate critical and complex environmental and social problems now and in the future. 
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A researcher and educator at the Bartlett, Richard’s work is focused on probiotic design, novel digital fabrication techniques, and new materials for microbial ecologies in buildings and cities. He is co-editor of the Syn.De.Bio forum ,which disseminates biodigital work at the crossroad of design, biology, and engineering, and promotes emerging talent in the field. His research on Probiotic Design won the RIBA Presidents Research Award in 2021. Richard has built numerous projects and has been exhibited internationally inc. Archilab – Naturalising Architecture, The Pompidou Centre and Nature – Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Hear the recording of our session here.