At the Science Fair 2018 at the International School Eindhoven (our new Neighbour!) we introduced the Curiosity Cultivator. Students and their parents made 'microbial portraits' by putting their nose, finger or even their lips or toes into a breeding plate for microorganisms. We let the...
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] On 23 May 2017, the ISE Science Fair featured a special collaboration with BioArt Laboratories in Eindhoven, bringing together biology, technology, and art in an inspiring learning environment and showing the power of crossing disciplinary boundaries. Students presented innovative...
Everyone is talking about sustainability – but what is it and on which principles is the term “sustainability” based in an urban environment? The world in which we live is undergoing great changes never seen before in human history. It is estimated that over 50% of...
A month after BioArt Laboratories organized a very interesting Open Stadslab concerning Biomimicry, another one is planned for June 8th. The theme this time is: City & Biobased Materials. What are biobased materials and how can we use them to our advantage? The use of biobased...
While nature has been evolving, and thus improving itself over the past 3,8 billion years, mankind only started developing technologies about 10,000 years ago. Relatively recently, scientists, innovators and others have discovered that there is a lot to be learned from nature. In this case,...
Nowadays, composite materials like glass or carbon fibre reinforced plastics are increasingly used as lightweight materials in many industrial sectors. While characterised by their strength and rigidity, these materials come with certain disadvantages such as high energy demands during production, the need for oil as...
BioArt Laboratories was invited to contribute to the museum night of November the 7th at the NEMO science center. The theme of the evening was ‘Enlighten me’, as part of the 2015 international year of light. BioArt Laboratories’ biologist Bram Geers demonstrated how to isolate...
In the month of November, ‘Open StadsLab’ was all about bioluminescence. Several groups of students from all over the Netherlands (the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Koninklijke academie van beeldende kunsten Den Haag e.a.) visited BioArt Laboratories. They were introduced to bio-art, biotechnology and...
To introduce children to nature and biomimicry, BioArt Laboratories has prepared a workshop for them on bees and their honeycomb structures. The workshop is based on the Dutch classic ‘Erik en het kleine insectenboek’, by Godfried Bomans. In this book insects talk to the protagonist,...
During the Dutch Design Week, BioArt Laboratories held a grand opening of ‘Open StadsLab’. Where we set up a mobile laboratory with incubators, culture shakers, flowhoods and every other tool necessary to work safe with biological materials in the middle of a city. We showed...