Designing a Living Material Through Bio-Digital-Fabrication: Guiding the growth of fungi through a robotic system

Dilan Ozkan; Martyn Dade-Robertson; Ruth Morrow; Meng Zhang

Designing a Living Material Through Bio-Digital-Fabrication: Guiding the growth of fungi through a robotic system

Dilan Ozkan^*, Martyn Dade-Robertson, Ruth Morrow, Meng Zhang

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Abstract

Designing with living materials require designers to look for new methods of fabrication since living cells exhibit their own agency, and are able to sense and respond to environmental stimuli. Therefore, there is an urgent demand to design a framework for fabricating living materials. This paper investigates the digital-fabrication of fungi as a new way of designing and crafting living materials without genetic manipulation. In this research, fungi act as a bio-material probe to generate and test new design strategies that enable a dialogue between digital and biological systems. Conceptual experiments, that use fungi to investigate the proposed bio-digital-fabrication scenarios, are central in this study. The research attempts to generate new information for the design process of an organism in the field of architecture. The project will expand on the latest thinking on the bio-material fabrication by allowing the living material to be engaged in the fabrication process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Towards a new, configurable architecture
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 39th International Hybrid Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Editors	Vesna Stojaković, Bojan Tepavčević
Place of Publication	Brussels
Publisher	Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)
Pages	77-84
Number of pages	8
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9789491207228, 9788660223588
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021
Event	eCAADe2021: Towards a new, configurable architecture - University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia Duration: 8 Sept 2021 → 10 Sept 2021 http://www.ecaade2021.ftn.uns.ac.rs/

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Name	eCAADe
Publisher	Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
ISSN (Print)	2684-1843

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Conference	eCAADe2021
Country/Territory	Serbia
City	Novi Sad
Period	8/09/21 → 10/09/21
Internet address	http://www.ecaade2021.ftn.uns.ac.rs/

Keywords

Bio-digital-fabrication
Biological interactions
Self-organizing material systems
Robotic growth chamber

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Ozkan, D., Dade-Robertson, M., Morrow, R., & Zhang, M. (2021). Designing a Living Material Through Bio-Digital-Fabrication: Guiding the growth of fungi through a robotic system. In V. Stojaković, & B. Tepavčević (Eds.), Towards a new, configurable architecture: Proceedings of the 39th International Hybrid Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (Vol. 1, pp. 77-84). (eCAADe). Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe). http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/paper/ecaade2021_022

Ozkan, Dilan ; Dade-Robertson, Martyn ; Morrow, Ruth et al. / Designing a Living Material Through Bio-Digital-Fabrication : Guiding the growth of fungi through a robotic system. Towards a new, configurable architecture: Proceedings of the 39th International Hybrid Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. editor / Vesna Stojaković ; Bojan Tepavčević. Vol. 1 Brussels : Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), 2021. pp. 77-84 (eCAADe).

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Ozkan, D, Dade-Robertson, M, Morrow, R & Zhang, M 2021, Designing a Living Material Through Bio-Digital-Fabrication: Guiding the growth of fungi through a robotic system. in V Stojaković & B Tepavčević (eds), Towards a new, configurable architecture: Proceedings of the 39th International Hybrid Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. vol. 1, eCAADe, Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), Brussels, pp. 77-84, eCAADe2021, Novi Sad, Serbia, 8/09/21. <http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/paper/ecaade2021_022>

Designing a Living Material Through Bio-Digital-Fabrication: Guiding the growth of fungi through a robotic system. / Ozkan, Dilan; Dade-Robertson, Martyn; Morrow, Ruth et al.
Towards a new, configurable architecture: Proceedings of the 39th International Hybrid Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. ed. / Vesna Stojaković; Bojan Tepavčević. Vol. 1 Brussels: Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), 2021. p. 77-84 (eCAADe).

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Ozkan D, Dade-Robertson M, Morrow R, Zhang M. Designing a Living Material Through Bio-Digital-Fabrication: Guiding the growth of fungi through a robotic system. In Stojaković V, Tepavčević B, editors, Towards a new, configurable architecture: Proceedings of the 39th International Hybrid Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. Vol. 1. Brussels: Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe). 2021. p. 77-84. (eCAADe). Epub 2021 Aug 11.

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