BioDwelling: A participatory approach to living with living material

TY - JOUR

T1 - BioDwelling

T2 - A participatory approach to living with living material

AU - Mackenzie, Louise

AU - Modi, Kaajal

N1 - Copyright: © 2023 Intellect Ltd Article.

PY - 2023/10

Y1 - 2023/10

N2 - BioDwelling is an arts-led research project that brings ethical concerns of culture, gender and multispecies relationality from the feminist technosciences into direct conversation with the emerging field of biotechnological architecture (bio-architecture). Working within a multi-disciplinary bio-architecture research group, we develop a practice-led methodology to facilitate the exploration of questions that arise when we begin to engineer more-than-human dwelling spaces. In this article we give a brief overview of the work of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE) and the Responsible Interactions research theme, which outlines the project context. We go on to describe the BioDwelling methodology and introduce three arts-led interventions that draw on feminist science and cultural theory to invite reflections on the ethical implications of working with living materials to build (or grow?) spaces in which humans intend to live. We conclude with a summary of the project to date, reflections on methods and possible next steps.

AB - BioDwelling is an arts-led research project that brings ethical concerns of culture, gender and multispecies relationality from the feminist technosciences into direct conversation with the emerging field of biotechnological architecture (bio-architecture). Working within a multi-disciplinary bio-architecture research group, we develop a practice-led methodology to facilitate the exploration of questions that arise when we begin to engineer more-than-human dwelling spaces. In this article we give a brief overview of the work of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE) and the Responsible Interactions research theme, which outlines the project context. We go on to describe the BioDwelling methodology and introduce three arts-led interventions that draw on feminist science and cultural theory to invite reflections on the ethical implications of working with living materials to build (or grow?) spaces in which humans intend to live. We conclude with a summary of the project to date, reflections on methods and possible next steps.

KW - bio-architecture

KW - bio-design

KW - biotechnology

KW - interdisciplinary

KW - methodology

KW - more-than-human

KW - participatory art

U2 - 10.1386/tear_00113_1

DO - 10.1386/tear_00113_1

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85184599282

SN - 1477-965X

VL - 21

SP - 243

EP - 263

JO - Technoetic Arts

JF - Technoetic Arts

IS - 2

ER -