Project Description + Timeline

Ultimate Goal

I aim to generate curiosity and excitement about using bio-design as a tool to create regenerative solutions that are not just for future space exploration, but could be applied to improve life here on earth.

Since access to food and material is a constraint in space travel, I'll be exploring how we can leverage biology, design and technology to grow multipurpose organisms for oxygen, food and bio-material (to fabricate our environment).

The Vision

To demonstrate this organic and regenerative imagined future, I aim to create an immersive installation with:

• Projection mapping of space + star wars intro like text with audio to provide context/world building

• A center piece that is made with mycelium and serves as a dinner table and an incubator that grows algae and transgenic organisms

• Dinnerware that is 3D printed or molded from biomaterial, made with mycelium or algae bioplastic

• Dinner: made with transgenic organisms grown in the incubator (multicolor oyster mushrooms + spirulina?)

Mood-board

Project Timeline

February 9th-March 9th:

1. Biomaterial

   • mycelium: simple brick, various molds, (3d printing?)

   • algae bioplastic: sheet, molded

2. Transgenic organisms

   • Space oyster mushrooms: (different colors? Bioluminescent? different taste profiles?)

   • Spirulina: (different vitamin levels? different fat content?)

3. Thesis Book

   • Outline + Intro

   • Lit review, Secondary + primary research

   • Ideation

March 9th- April 9th:

1. 3D modeling

   • Main artifact: Incubator Table

   • Dinnerware: plates, glasses, cutlery

2. Fabrication

3. Projection video + audio

4. Thesis Book

   • Experiments

   • Prototyping

   • Review

   • Next steps

Biomaterial Experiment: Mycelium

I started to grow mycelium which I will use to create basic mycelium concrete blocks in different molds. I plan on using cured as well as alive mycelium to fabricate the main structure of the table/incubator.