Bio Design: Nature + Science + Creativity

ISBN 10: 0870709526 / ISBN 13: 9780870709524

Edité par The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Bio Design: Nature + Science + Creativity
• Éditeur: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0870709526
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780870709524
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: very_good

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Designers and artists have always looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they been able to alter and incorporate living organisms in their work. In a world with finite resources and a growing population, design that mimics or appropriates the sustainable template of nature is likely to prove as vital as it is novel. Bio Design examines some seventy projects (concepts, prototypes and completed designs) that cover the fields of architecture, industrial processes, education, fine art, material engineering and bioengineering. Each project is illustrated by a short text, images and captions that combine to explain the problems the venture tackles, and how living materials and processes were harnessed to solve them in sustainable and aesthetically pleasing ways. Many of the solutions also provoke thought about manipulating life for human ends. From bacteria that can spin microfibrils of pure cellulose for use in the clothing industry to pigeons that fed special bacteria excrete harmless detergent instead of faeces, and from lamps that require blood to function to genetically hacked plants with human DNA biological design is science future here and now.