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April 4, 2022

BioKnit – Final Prototype is installed in the “OME”

April 4, 2022

How to grow concrete and other building materials  – Interview with Martyn Dade-Robertson by the  Engineering & Technology Magazine

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April 25, 2022

Save the date: Hello_OME Launch Week

May 11, 2022

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July 3, 2022

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Bio-Sandstone Prototype shortlisted to the top 3 for RIBA Scott Brownrigg Award for Sustainable Development 2022

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Myco-Knit CompoSITe longlisted for Sustainable Design Dezeen Awards 2022

December 9, 2022

‘Human-Bacteria Interfaces’ Project presented in Berlin

Our multidisciplinary Team ‘Human-Bacteria Interfaces’ presented their final concept and prototype at the Driving The Human Festival at Silent Green in Berlin, November 2022. The exhibition […]
January 12, 2023

Will we soon coexist with living, sensing materials? – Interview with Frame Magazine about possible architectural Futures

January 13, 2023

Fibre Fusion: Circular Manufacturing of Water Repelling Bacterial Cellulose Through a Biological Approach

January 13, 2023

Enzymatic upcycling of textile waste into biodegradable mycelium leather

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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.