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News & Publications

  • Published by Ben Bridgens at May 12, 2025

    The Pupa: BioKnit at the Newcastle Late Shows

  • Published by Ben Bridgens at April 2, 2025

    RE:TV Growing Materials from Mycelium

  • Published by Ben Bridgens at March 3, 2025

    Opportunity: artist commission

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Vision

Built environments which are life-sustaining and sustained by life. Our mission is to develop biotechnologies to create a new generation of Living Buildings which are responsible and responsive to their natural environment; grown using living engineered materials to reduce inefficient industrial construction processes; metabolise their own waste, reducing pollution, generating energy and high-value products; and modulate their microbiome to benefit human and ecological health and wellbeing.