BDC 2017 Year in Review
2017 Partners and Collaborators
Highlights from 2017
BDC Alumni Success
BDC students and alumni shared their projects internationally, won awards, and raised money:
2017 Team UK 2029 from University of Edinburgh led a “Biodesign for Social Impact” workshop at Dutch Design Week
2016 BDC alum Jiwon Woo won the 2017 Bioart and Design Award (BAD) in the Netherlands for her project Mother’s Hand Taste (Son-mat)
2016 FIT team AlgiKnit won a National Geographic Chasing Genius Award
2016 BDC alumni, FIT’s Bioesters and MICA’s Starter Culture showcased their work to the audience at the Biofabricate conference
BDC Held an event at kickstarter hq
BDC partnered with Kickstarter to host all the NYC-based universities participating in the competition. The reception included presentations from Suzanne Anker, a pioneer in the field of bioart, Nina Tandon, a scientist who 3D-prints bone,
intrexon sponsored the Sustainable Food + Agriculture Prize
Intrexon Corporation, a leader in the engineering and industrialization of biology, was a Platinum Sponsor of BDC 2017. The Intrexon Sustainable Food + Agriculture Prize was awarded to the student team that explores a project that addresses agriculture, food production, packaging, or distribution. The award went to NYU ITP’s team Beecosystem.
BDC visited arizona state university
Daniel Grushkin and Alison Irvine visited Arizona State University's Biodesign Challenge class and participated in the Emerge Festival. EMERGE is an annual transmedia art, science and technology festival designed to engage diverse publics in the creative exploration of our possible futures.
bdc presented at echo dubai 2017
BDC was invited to ECHO Dubai festival to present on the future of biodesign and BDC. ECHO is an annual art, design and technology festival.
bdc attended biofabricate in boston
BDC Executive Director Daniel Grushkin announced BDC 2017’s participating schools at the Biofabricate conference.
At the conference, BDC 2016 student teams Bioesters (Fashion Institute of Technology) and Starter Culture (Maryland Institute College of Art), showcased their work to an audience from science, industry, and design.