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Biodesign Challenge Summit 2023 highlights student innovations in biotechnology | STIRpad | September 14, 2023
STIRpad features BDC Summit 2023, introducing the program and challenge to their readers and highlighting winning projects from this year.
Is your water contaminated? This clever device will tell you | Fast Company | August 8, 2023
Fast Company features Colores del Rio, the Outstanding Social Critique 2023 Prize winning-project from Melissa Ortiz at CCA Design. Colores del Rio is a natural tool that turns pink when dipped in contaminated water made entirely of red cabbage waste sourced from a local agricultural community.
Replace the Leather in Your Wallet With Seafood Waste | Wired | February 22, 2023
Wired shares how TômTex has been rapidly scaling their shrimp shell-based leather alternative and partnering with major brands.
Flavor-Enhancing Spoons and Chopsticks Could Make Food Taste Better | Scientific American | January 9, 2023
SciAm profiles Team 4.6692016 from Biodesign Sprint 2022. The team proposed a new type of cutlery that can enhance flavors such as sweetness or saltiness for a more satisfying meal.
Moss Filter Could Capture Microplastics Before you Drink Them | Fast Company | June 30, 2022
Fast Company profiles the winning team from BDC Summit 2023: Mus(t)Go by students at UniAndes. Their project draws inspiration from moss’s natural abilities to filter water.
On the Power of Networks | ISSUES in Science and Technology | Summer 2022
ISSUES Editor (and past BDC judge and keynote speaker) Lisa Margonelli describes how sharing knowledge and dialgoe across disciplines is as important as the knowledge itself.
Past Coverage
Fabrics from Your Fridge | The New York Times (coverage of TômTex, 2020, Parsons School of Design)
THRIVE: an expo in designing nature and growing technology | Next Nature Network (coverage of BDC’s 2022 exhibition THRIVE)
Green People: How Sustainable Material Entrepreneurs Move Differently | Women’s Wear Daily (coverage of AlgiKnit, 2016, FIT)
What is Biodesign? | Issues in Science and Technology (essay by BDC Executive Director Daniel Grushkin)
Biodesign Challenge’s New Book Highlights The Role Of Biotech In Sustainability | Green Queen (coverage of BDC’s book Grow the Future)
TômTex is a leather alternative made from waste seafood shells and coffee grounds | dezeen (coverage TômTex, 2020, Parsons School of Design)
Students Transform Invasive Mussels into Glass, and the Results are Beautiful | Fast Company (coverage of Zebra Glass, 2020, College for Creative Studies)
Collection of Biodesign Project Features | Issues in Science and Technology (collection of BDC project highlights)
ABC7News: Living Pod Project Featured on Local News (VIDEO) | ABC7News (coverage of Living Pod, 2020, Seashift Collaborative)
Students Use Invasive Species of Mussels to Create Beautiful Blue Glass | design boom (coverage of Zebra Glass, 2020, College for Creative Studies)
A Peek Into the Possibilities of Biodesign | Science Friday (coverage of BDC 2016)
Biodesign Winners Universidad De Los Andes Have Found A Way To Naturally Make Ice In A Warming World | Forbes (coverage of PseudoFreeze, 2019, UniAndes)
Scientists Propose a New Marker for the Anthropocene: Chickens | Discover Magazine (coverage of Pink Chicken Project, 2017, Central Saint Martins)
What Will it Take to Make Vegan Wool? | Smithsonian Magazine (coverage of Woocoa, 2018, UniAndes)
The Next Big Home Design Trend? Bacteria | Fast Company (coverage of BDC 2018)
This Crib Is Designed to Grow Babies Outside the Womb | Fast Company (coverage of Par-tu-ri-ent, 2017, ArtEZ)
Stockholm Design Week: What's on Display on Sustainability | Vogue Ukraine (coverage of Pink Chicken Project, 2017, Central Saint Martins)
Press Releases
Nov. 8, 2022 | Biodesign Challenge and Mars Wrigley Select Winners of Biodesign Sprint, Nov. 3-4
Aug. 29, 2022 | Global Teams To Use Biotechnology to Design Regenerative Ecosystems
Jul. 18, 2022 | BMCC First Community College to Compete in International Biodesign Competition
Jun. 30, 2022 | Students from Universidad de los Andes are Winners of BDC Summit 2022
Jun. 1, 2022 | Students Envision the Future of Biotech at BDC Summit 2022, June 20-24
Apr. 14, 2022 | THRIVE Exhibition will Showcase Work at the Nexus of Art, Design, and Biology
Sept. 1, 2021 | Creative Teams to Use Biotechnology to Reimagine the Future of Consumer Electronics
Jun. 21, 2021 | New Book Features Highlights from the Emerging Design Field of Biodesign
Jun. 1, 2021 | 53 Finalist Teams to Present Biotech Designs at BDC Summit 2021
Dec. 10, 2020 | Science Sandbox Partners with BDC for 2021
Dec. 18, 2019 | MANA Sponsors Future of Beauty Prize for BDC 2020
Jun. 3, 2019 | Students Gather at the Museum of Modern Art to Compete in the Biodesign Challenge
Jul. 2, 2018 | Woocoa Wins the Animal-Free Wool Prize at the BDC Summit 2018
Jun. 23, 2017 | CSM Team Wins Biodesign Challenge 2017
Mar. 20, 2017 | Announcing the Intrexon Prize for Food + Agriculture and Summit Sponsorship
Jun. 30, 2016 | FIT Team Wins Biodesign Challenge Against Eight Major Colleges and Universities
Jun. 23, 2016 | Biodesign Challenge Finalists Present at Museum of Modern Art
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