Biolab week, exploring the ecology of color

From the 15th to the 19th of March, Elisava Research, Elisava’s Master in Design through New Materials and Hangar presented the Biolab week, a week of conferences and workshops on bio materials hosted in the framework of Biofriction. On March 15th, Hangar hosted the Biolab Conference, a lecture where Maria Boto (The Colour Biolab, University […]
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BioLab Conference

On Monday, March 15 at 6 pm (CET), Elisava Research and the European project Biofriction present the Biolab Conference, a lecture organized within the framework of Elisava’s BioLab Week and the Master in Design through New Materials. Maria Boto (The Colour Biolab, UGhent); Juan Crespo (Elisava Research BioLab) and Laura Benítez (director of the Biofriction project, led […]
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Bio-autonomous Farming

How many kinds of female ejaculation do you know? Can a brain orgasm be transformed into a renewable energy source in times of disaster? In this workshop, Isabel Burr Raty presented the essentials of the bio-autonomous female farming system employed at her Beauty Kit Farm, where was exploring some of these questions with the workshop participants. This farm is […]
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Non/Living Queerings

The ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19 has exposed SARS-CoV-2 as a potent nonhuman actant that resists the joint scientific, public health and socio-political efforts to contain and understand both the virus and the illness. Yet, such a narrative appears to conceal more than it reveals. The seeming agentiality of the novel corona virus is itself […]
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