October 29, 2020

Bio Design Book Series: Living Construction

Modern biotechnologies give us unprecedented control of the fundamental building blocks of life. For designers, across a range of disciplines, emerging fields such as synthetic biology […]
January 15, 2021

Publication on COVID-19 spread in the UK

Analysis from scientists at numerous universities across the UK has been published in Science, documenting the first wave of Covid-19 in the UK. A team at the […]
November 1, 2021

Materials Experience 2: Expanding Territories of Materials and Design

Editors: Owain Pedgley, Valentina Rognoli, Elvin Karana Paperback ISBN: 9780128192443 eBook ISBN: 9780128192450 Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann Published Date: 23rd September 2021 Page Count: 328 Co-Authors from the HBBE: Chapter 6: Material change: transforming experience by […]
May 11, 2022

Are Mushrooms Parametric?

HBBE Researchers published a paper in the Special Issue Fungal Architectures about using fungi as a biomaterial probe to experiment with the parametric behavior of living systems. Authors: […]
June 6, 2023

Bio Protopia

Published: 06 Jun 2023 ISBN: 978-3-0356-2579-0e-book Designing with living materials: thoughts on the paradigm shift and an overview of the state of research What is “Bioprotopia”? It is […]