Talks and Workshops

2023 - Vibrant Matter, Digital Design Week, V&A, London, UK

2023 - Look Around you, Augmented reality in the built environment, School of communication, RCA, UK

2023 - Preparations to be together for an unknown period of time, Designing through Temporal Ecologies Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, UK

2023- DESIGN X BIOINFORMATICS, School for Design, RCA, London, UK

2022 - Luminous Project, LG Display x IED RCA

2022 - [Design - Creative Practice - Research], Design Museum, London, UK

2022 - Bio-Revolutions, radical change, design cultures and non-humans, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2021 - Brompton Design Week. MA Design products

2021- Biodesign workshop series, MA Biodesign, CSM, UAL, London, UK

2021- Beyond sustainable design. In: TWELVE org, Jordan

2021- The promise of 5G. In: Victoria and Albert Museum, Digital Design week, London UK

2020- Keynote “Between a Computer and a Cell, Workshop: In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico. In: ACADIA 20: Distributed Proximities

2020 - The Nature of Biodesign in HCI DIS Conference, UK-Australia

2020 - Fungi: Cultivating materials through growth and degradation in collaboration with Anete Salmane, RCA, London, UK

2020 - Design at Microbial Scale in collaboration with Orkan Telhan, RCA, London, UK

2019 - Material Encounters with the non-humans, Bioclub Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2018 - Bio x Design, Quite Frankly: It’s a Monster Conference, 17-19 October 2018, Perth, Australia

2019- Nature/Nurture: Biophilic Design learning from nature. London Design Festival, Brompton Design District

2018 - Living matter: recalibrating design’s terms of engagement, London Design Week, Biodesign, Here now, Open Cell, London, UK

2018 - Materiality: recalibrating design’s terms of engagement in an age of ecological crisis, School of Architecture, Concordia University, Design and Computation Arts, Montreal, Canada

2018 - Cartographies of the non-human, School of Architecture, Newcastle University, UK

2017 - Cartographies of the non-human, Shapeshifters Lectures, Beursschouwburg vzw & LUCA school of arts. Brussels, BE

Competitions and Performances

2021 - 60 mins Film Festival, Denmark

2017 - Bio Art and Design Award, Finalist, Project: Drifter, Whisper, Trickster, In collaboration with Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, The Netherlands

2007 -Competition for the refurbishment of the Mexican Naval Academy, Awarded, Mexico

2016 - Living Ashes II performance, CLICK Festival, Contemporary art, science & technology, Helsingør, DK

Selected Exhibitions

2020- Drifter, Whisper, Trickster in Festival of the Mind, Sheffield, UK

2019 – Biological Buildings, The Barbican Centre, London, UK

2018 – Living with adaptive architecture, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, UK

2017 - Bio-material probes, design engagements with living systems. Newcastle University, UK

2016 - Bio Apartment 3—Succession. National Taiwan Museum, Nanmen Park, Taiwan

2015 - Making Life, Living Ashes. Lasipalatsi Gallery, Helsinki

2014 - Ordinary takeover. Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London

2013 - Praxis and poetics. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle

2005 - Designs from the Future. Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico city