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Why the notion of biodesign has to change? A theoretical-practical approach

Base Diseño e Innovación, 2022

This article presents an exploratory experience aimed at dimensioning the notion of biodesign to strengthen the training of future industrial designers and generate methodological bases to design with biotechnology. We frequently hear the concepts of biodesign and bionics to indicate the application of biological principles in a project. Some courses could address this issue even within the curricula of various degrees in industrial design. However, more should be discussed about biotechnology and its implications, with biodesign in particular and design in a more general scenario. In this context, the following question arises: What notion of biodesign is the one that should permeate today? A theoretical investigation was executed, as well as a methodological approach, which explores the relationship between biotechnology and design through a theoretical framework and the development of several end-of-career projects by industrial design students. The results obtained exemplify an alternative perspective to the exercise of biodesign, which is not necessarily simplified to the application of a biomaterial or the rescue of organic waste, but, on the contrary, can represent the proposal of a new sociotechnical system that impacts the user, the community or even society as a whole.

How the informed relations between physical, digital and biological dimensions are changing the design practice, as well as the sustainability paradigm

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

In the “century of biotechnology”, a new form of “bio-digital industry” is emerging in which, thanks to increasingly sophisticated and digitized technologies that allow engineering and production on a biological quantum scale, it is possible to analyze and reproduce the generative, chemical, physical, and molecular processes underlying natural mechanisms. Inheriting methodologies and technologies from biological fabrication, bio-digital practices foster a new material-based biological paradigm that, bringing biomimicry to a material level, allows designers to observe substances and logic used by nature for assembling and structuring its materials, developing more sustainable and strategic ways for artifice manufacturing, as well as replicating complex, tailored, and emergent biological qualities. The paper aims to describe the new hybrid manufacturing techniques, demonstrating how the transition from form-based to material-based approaches also leads to the change of logic and conce...

Custom Design of Packaging through Advanced Technologies: Case of Study Applied to Apples

2019

In the context of food packaging design, customization enhances the value of a product by meeting the needs of the consumer. Personalization is also linked to adaptation. This makes it possible to improve the properties of the packaging from various points of view: functional, aesthetic, economic and ecological. Currently the functional and formal properties of packaging are not investigated among themselves, however the study of both properties are the basis for creating a new concept of personalized and sustainable product. In accordance with this approach, the conceptual design procedure of packaging with personalized and adapted geometries based on the digitization of fresh food is proposed in this work. This study is based on the application of advanced technologies for the design and development of food packaging, in this case apples, in order to improve the quality of the packaging. The results obtained show that it is possible to use advanced technologies in the early stages...

Rethinking the Role of Design within the Technological Advancements in Biomimetics and SynBio

The Design Journal, 2017

Digital technological advancements in Synthetic Biology has allowed breakthroughs that surpassed the realm of laboratory confinements to reach public democratization of biotechnology. Many designers are creating speculative objects that are used in possible, often provocative scenarios in order to open discussions and raise awareness. Both Biomimetics and SynBio find common ground in design and biology. In both cases, the designer is, hence, creating new bridges between biology and design. In SynBio, new imaginary products are made tangible to stimulate debate and communicate to the users, thus, a shifting role from the designer as a problem-solver (in Biomimetics) to the designer as a philosophical sense maker (in SynBio). This paper summarizes the findings of a research done within the context of a doctoral research study at IUAV, Istituto Univesitario accademico di Venezia. Comparison of both applications and implications will highlight convergences and divergences in the role of design for the current and next technology in Biomimetics and SynBio.