Since the BAD Award 2024 call opened in December, we received 107 applications coming from 20 different countries. Out of all these proposals a thorough selection of 16 applicants was made by representatives of the BAD Award consortium organizations (BioArt Laboratories, Dutch Design Foundation, MU Hybrid Art House and Next Nature Network). We were thrilled to see so many high-quality, innovative, and creative ideas, and the selected artists/designer and the title of their proposals are:

• Hazal Erturkan – Drinkable Memories | Microbiome Restaurant
• Hsu Rae – She tries her tongue, her silence softly breaks (aka. Can the yeast speak?)
• Yuning Chen – Microbial Revolt. Sovereign State Revolution
• Carla Alcala Badias – Microbial Prophetesses
• Liu Shuai – The Mythology of Craters: Destruction and Creation
• Emilia Tapprest – Ecotonal Beings
• Miguel Teodoro – Imaging the Geosphere
• Qiu Yu, Diane Xing – Foods and digestive enzymes: reconnecting land and ancestors
• Maria Daniela Paloma – La mata que no mata
• Annan Zuo – Connecting the Umwelten. Being and Becoming a Cow
• Laura Elidedt Rodriguez Torres – Mushroom Mitote: Decolonizing Psilocybin practices
• Lena Kuzmich – Organ of Kin
• Maksud Ali Mondal – Ruminating matters: a dyadic interaction
• Eleonora Ortolani – Food, unearthed
• Noelle Ingeveldt – Bovine Semiotics: Decoding with Machine Intelligence
• Shonali Shetty – Reproductive Wilderness

At the matchmaking event on April 19th, these proposals advanced to the next round, where they will partner with twelve scientists from leading Dutch research institutes and universities, representing diverse expertise in life sciences and ecology. Follow these teams of artists, designers, and scientists as they compete once again for the Bio Art & Design Awards.