We are pleased to announce a new PhD studentship in the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment working on the Living Textile Interface project. We […]
Jane will be presenting “Ecologies of Knitting: Programmable, Responsive and Adaptive Textiles” at the ARCHINTEX conference hosted by the Swedish School of Textiles, delivered online over […]
Published in Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice Abstract It is widely acknowledged that textile processing is increasingly unsustainable, for example textile dyeing is experiencing […]
Research into the way microbes move within our living spaces and interact with materials and textiles within our homes is essential, given the current Covid-19 pandemic […]
‘In Silico, In Vitro, In Vivo: Programming in Processing and in Life’ was a workshop held at this year’s ACADIA conference: Distributed Proximities on October 24-30. […]
Material Designer and Ph.D. research student Romy Kaiser is granted the Sustainable Development Award 2021 for her previously completed Master Thesis Kera-Plast at the Swedish School […]
The interdisciplinary research project Fibre Highways by HBBE Team members Dr Angela Sherry and Dr Jane Scott investigates how a symbiotic relationship can be developed between knitted fabrics and microorganisms, […]
COIMBRA | PORTUGAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE I 12 – 15 OCTOBER 2021 CONSTRUCTION, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY SPECIAL THEMATIC SESSION: RESPONSIBLE BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND BIODESIGN FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Org: […]
HBBE member Jane Scott presented at the DigitalFUTURES Talk: Soft Materials on the 17th of April 2021. Soft Materials are flexible, floppy, and transformable. They are […]
The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment were awarded funding for the project “RESPIRE: Passive, Responsive, Variable Porosity Building Skins”, led by Ben Bridgens, Helen […]
The first step on our Fibre Highways research journey was to learn from reproducing the fascinating Fungal Highways research of Kohlmeier et al., 2005. SUCCESS – look […]
A team of researchers from the HBBE and Newcastle University has published an article on Photosynthetic textile biocomposites in Science and Engineering of Composite Materials 2021, 28(1), 223-236. […]
Our multidisciplinary Team ‘Human-Bacteria Interfaces’ had the chance to present their research concept about a biosensor in the built environment in Berlin as part of the […]