February 13, 2025
The OME’s demountable wall system is being used to test the thermal performance of an experimental wall system, which combines commercially available extruded clay blocks with […]
February 11, 2025
Healing Masonry has been featured in Material Source’s annual guide to biomaterial and waste-based products! Healing Masonry introduces a blend of biological self-healing systems into masonry materials, presenting a […]
February 11, 2025
Online panel discussion: February 11th 13:00 CET. A panel of scientists (including HBBE’s Magdalini Theodoridou) will be inspired by thoughtful questions and fun videos from kids, […]
February 1, 2025
January 27, 2025
Discipline hopping Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow Evgueni Filipov joins HBBE. Evgueni Filipov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the […]
November 26, 2024
The Living Room is a mycelium-knit biohybrid architecture that consists of an exposed knitted formwork on the interior and a smooth mycelium plaster on the exterior, […]
November 25, 2024
Bacteria-Driven Form Exploration through Aeration Scaffolding This research investigates an approach into co-designing with cellulose-producing bacteria to explore its morphogenetic tendencies in order to create intricate […]
August 21, 2024
This paper investigates the design potential of monolithically grown Mycelium-based Composites (MBCs), focusing on integrating 3D knitted formworks within the fabrication process. Mycelium has gained attention […]
April 26, 2024
How can the intersection of textile practices, biofabrication, and computation disrupt industrial construction processes to deliver scalable solutions for regenerative architecture? Materialised through a textile logic, […]
April 26, 2024
This paper explores biological, physical, and morphological factors influencing the programming of a novel microbial-based smart hybrid material which is responsive to changes in environmental humidity. […]
April 12, 2024
Visit our work at Edinburgh Science Festival this year! HBBE is present with several exhibition pieces in the main atrium of the National Museums Scotland on […]
April 8, 2024
The Living Textiles Research Group has been established as a core research theme for the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment. Living Textiles, led by […]
March 12, 2024
From light pollution to e-waste and healthy ageing to biomaterials, the Festival of Futures at Lancaster University is all set to show how design research can […]
March 9, 2024
We are excited to announce our upcoming exhibition in the _OME: Biogenic Construction: Building the future with microbial minerals Biomineralization is nature’s method of creating durable, robust […]
February 22, 2024
Exciting news on the way – We are currently building our Bioknit Prototype Nr. 4 #The Growing Room. A three-metre high architecture composed of fungal mycelium […]
January 18, 2024
We are thrilled to share the exhilarating news that the Bio-Futures for Transplanetary Habitats (BFfTH) Special Interest Group has officially launched its brand-new website! The newly […]
November 20, 2023
We are delighted to announce that we are exhibiting at the Design Museum London as part of the Future Observatory Display, opening on the 20th of November […]
November 14, 2023
You are warmly invited to our Research Seminar Series that is open to ALL looking to learn and engage with our NUAcT fellows. Come along to meet our fellows […]
November 10, 2023
We are delighted to share updates on the latest work from the Microbial Environments Theme, researching on OMEinfo. WHAT IS OMEinfo? OMEinfo is an open-source bioinformatics […]
October 20, 2023
We are very excited to send a full cohort to the ACADIA conference ‘Habits of the Anthropocene’ this year! We are engaged in workshops, several paper sessions […]
October 19, 2023
Are you interested in joining the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment as a PhD Student and developing a PhD Studentship application with us? We are looking for […]
October 10, 2023
September 15, 2023
To reduce the dependency on active cooling, in this study, we aimed to re-design ‘Jaali’— perforated screens made of bricks and sandstones to cool the incoming […]
July 26, 2023
Space habitats, facing extreme conditions in space and on other planetary bodies, should have redundancy and versatility. There are many adaptability strategies for terrestrial habitats but none […]
July 25, 2023
This paper presents significant advances in mycelium biofabrication using permanent knitted textile formwork and a new substrate formulation to dramatically improve the mechanical properties of mycelium-textile […]
July 16, 2023
June 23, 2023
We are excited to announce our involvement in the ACADIA 2023 Conference ‘Habits of the Anthropocene’ this year. The conference is hosted at the University of […]
June 13, 2023
June 6, 2023
Published: 06 Jun 2023 Designing with living materials: thoughts on the paradigm shift and an overview of the state of research What is “Bioprotopia”? It is a […]
May 30, 2023
Are you interested in joining the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment as an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow? The call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is now open with the objective […]
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