Our Material Ecologies for Synthetic Biologies paper has been published in Computer-Aided Design. Abstract and download are below: This paper discusses the role that material ecologies […]
The Computational Colloids project will be presented at ACADIA 2016 (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). The paper which will be published in October 2016 […]
The times have published an article on the Computational Colloids Project: Houses could be prevented from collapsing by bacteria genetically engineered to stabilise the soil beneath […]
Forget bricks, researchers say ‘smart soil’ injected with GM bacteria could be used to grow the first homes on Mars Genetically engineered bacteria injected into Martian […]
Reuters have produce a short video featuring out Computational Colloids project: Researchers at the universities of Newcastle and Northumbria want to render traditional building foundations obsolete. […]
We have just completed our Booster Grant application following our Computational Colloids Pilot Project. Inevitably in writing the follow-up grant we have been unable to include […]
Martyn Dade-Robertson kicked off the new Thinking Soils project with a public lecture at UC Berkeley (Wednesday 18th October 2017) and NASA Ames (Thursday 19th 2017). The […]
A documentary on the problems and potentials of bacteria and bacteria based technologies was broadcast in South Korea in December 2017. The documentary featured and interview […]
On the 24th Jan 2020 the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation (Chris Skidmore MP) visited Northumbria University as part of a tour […]
We are happy to announce that we have been selected to show at the Biodesign Here Nowexhibition at Opencell London during London Design Festival 2019. Our Ph.D. students whose work […]
Martyn gave a lecture on living construction at the Faculty of Art and Architecture, Technical University in Liberec and Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in […]
The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab organised a third annual Global Community Biosummit last month that brought together over 500 participants of DIY bio-enthusiasts from all over the world […]
The HBBE Team would like to reach out to colleagues, friends and collaborators all round the world at this challenging time. Our thoughts are with everyone, […]