biodesign

A small timber-framed house in a park, its walls built of pale bricks grown from mycelium, with a yellow door standing open. — SnowFire, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Biodesign means designing with living organisms such as fungi, algae and bacteria as active fabrication partners rather than treating nature only as a resource; the book names it, with radical sustainability, as a root of the new procedures the climate crisis and biotechnology demand.

Designing with nature rather than for it: collaborating directly with living organisms such as fungi, algae and bacteria as active agents in fabrication. The book names biodesign, with radical sustainability, as the root of the entirely new procedures the climate crisis and biotechnology demand.