G06 Living Materials

Extend beyond biomaterials into living materials.

Explore systems and process interpretations, focusing on lifecycles rather than objects and their properties.

Cf.

• Biomimicry, symbiosis, biophilia, bioinspiration, bio-informed design
• Materiality, define what the concept 'material' refers to
• Biodegradable Materials
• living materials

Seek to get rid of anthropocentric tendencies.

Probiotic architecture. Cf., Probiotic

Consider, invasive species, impact on Justice, etc.

Examples:

• Patterns of material production and use in natural systems, e.g., persistant maintanence of habitat structions is soil, rhizosphere, fertilisation of the water column by whales and the migration of zooplankton, biofilms, etc.
• Long terms cultivation of materials in human cultures, e.g., Japanese carpentry
• Bio-based architecture for sustainable living, consider the whole process, not just the material itself.

Rerefences

Rodrigo-Navarro, Aleixandre, Shrikrishnan Sankaran, Matthew J. Dalby, Aránzazu del Campo, and Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez. ‘Engineered Living Biomaterials’. Nature Reviews Materials 6, no. 12 (2021): 1175–90. https://doi.org/10/gnsxkm.

Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard, and Martin Tamke. ‘Towards a Transformational Eco-Metabolistic Bio-Based Design Framework in Architecture’. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 17, no. 4 (2022): 045005. https://doi.org/10/gtj8sz.