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:
Biomaterial
mycelium: simple brick, various molds, (3d printing?)
algae bioplastic: sheet, molded
Transgenic organisms
Space oyster mushrooms: (different colors? Bioluminescent? different taste profiles?)
Spirulina: (different vitamin levels? different fat content?)
Thesis Book
Outline + Intro
Lit review, Secondary + primary research
Ideation
March 9th- April 9th:
3D modeling
Main artifact: Incubator Table
Dinnerware: plates, glasses, cutlery
Fabrication
Projection video + audio
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.
