BIOfutures | in conversation
Exploring the Future of Bio-Innovation
The BIOfutures in Conversation inaugural livestream series brought together pioneering voices in biodesign, biomaterials, biosensing, biocomputing, biomimetics, and beyond. Hosted by our founder, Dr. Melissa Sterry, the series featured thought-provoking discussions with leading researchers, designers, and innovators from around the world. Through engaging Instagram IG Live sessions, guests including Professor Claudia Pasquero, Professor Rachel Armstrong, and Assoc. Professor Richard Beckett explored how emerging bio-technologies are reshaping cities, architecture, and design. From microbial urbanism to living architecture and fungal materials, each episode delved into transformative ideas shaping a sustainable future. The series provided an unparalleled platform for exchanging cutting-edge insights into the convergence of biology and technology. Whether addressing critical environmental challenges or imagining radical new ways to build, live, and create, BIOfutures in Conversation Series I captured the pulse of bio-innovation. Missed an episode? Revisit the recordings to stay at the forefront of the biofutures movement.
Series I Episode IX 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with Prof. Claudia Pasquero and Maria Kuptsova
Hear founding director of ecoLogicStudio, Professor Claudia Pasquero, and research associate at the Synthetic Landscape Lab, Maria Kuptsova, in conversation with Dr. Melissa Sterry discussing how still emerging developments in fields including biosensing, biodesign, biocomputing, and more are converging to open new ways to address critical problems facing cities around the world.
Series I Episode VIII 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with Assoc. Prof. Richard Beckett
Hear The Bartlett’s Assoc. Prof. Richard Beckett and biofuturist Dr. Melissa Sterry discuss how microbial and other living biological systems may shape our future cities in the recording of Session in the inaugural BIOfutures Instagram IG series.
Series I Episode VII 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with Prof. Rachel Armstrong
Hear pioneer of living architecture Professor Rachel Armstrong biofuturist Dr. Melissa Sterry discuss how we might create biocities that integrate living architectures to remedy critical environmental issues in the recording of Session VIII of the inaugural BIOfutures Instagram IG series.
Series I Episode VI 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with Oksana Bondar and Rachel Horton-Kitchlew
How might we grow the future with… fungi? Hear Biohm’s design director Oksana Bondar, fungal designer Rachel Horton-Kitchlew, and biofuturist Dr. Melissa Sterry share their thoughts in the recording of Session V from the inaugural BIOfutures IG session series.
Series I Episode V 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with the founders of Full Grown, Alice and Gavin Munro
Founders of Full Grown - a company literally ‘growing the future’ - Alice and Gavin Munro in conversation with biofuturist Dr. Melissa Sterry in Session IV in the inaugural BIOfutures Instagram IG series.
Series I Episode IV 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with Dr. Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa
How might we teach the skills, knowledge, and approaches to create biofutures? Royal College of Art Senior Tutor, architect, and designer Dr. Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa and biofuturist Melissa Sterry share their thoughts in Session VI of the inaugural BIOfutures series.
Series I Episode III 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with bioMATTERS cofounder Nancy Diniz
bioMATTERS cofounder and Central Saint Martin's Course Leader for MA Biodesign, Nancy Diniz and biofuturist Dr. Melissa Sterry discuss biofutures in product, furniture, and interior design in the recording of Session III in the inaugural BIOfutures Instagram IG series.
Series I Episode II 2022
BIOfutures | Dr. Melissa Sterry in conversation with bioartist Audrey Rangel Aguirre
Interdisciplinary artist Audrey Rangel Aguirre and our founder Melissa Sterry discuss biofutures at the intersection of art, biology, and society in Session I of the inaugural BIOfutures Instagram IG live-streamed series.
Series I Episode I 2022
BIOfutures | In conversation with Dr. Melissa Sterry, Prof. Claudia Pasquero, Maria Kuptsova, and Anouska Anquetil
Anouska Anquetil hosts a conversation between founding director of ecoLogicStudio, Professor Claudia Pasquero, research associate at the Synthetic Landscape Lab, Maria Kuptsova, and our founder Dr. Melissa Sterry on biofutures in architecture, design and the wider built environment.
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biocomputing
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biomimetics
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bioengineering
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biophilia
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biomanufacturing
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bionics
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biotechnology
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biomaterials • biodesign • biocomputing • biomimetics • bioengineering • biophilia • biomanufacturing • bionics • biotechnology •
