Paola Stephania

BACKGROUND.

• Architect and Designer with emphasis in product design of Los Andes University (Bogotá/Colombia)
• Currently making Master in Media Architecture in Bauhaus University (Weimar/Germany)

PROJECT IDEA.

Create a series of jewelry accessories that contain a piece of microbiology that is meant to be wearable.

The state of art and the advances made in the field, the investigation around the right microorganism, the environment that they need in order to grow, the process of product development and the results will be the subject of work in order to create the final product.

STATE OF ART.

*Microbiology & Cloth

How to combine/unite the world of design and the world of microbiology, an investigation of Neri Oxman in this camp shows the advances in the field. Computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering, and synthetic biology as the sources that we have in our time in order to create, innovate an design. Here the video of the advances in her field

        -https://www.ted.com/talks/neri_oxman_design_at_the_intersection_of_technology_and_biology

*Steps to create art in Petri box

Petri-dish Picasso Contest is a contest where people show their work with bacterias and microorganism and the artistic possibilities that exist within it. The web page shows the results of the last contest and a video with the Petri-box art process.

        -https://invisiverse.wonderhowto.com/news/our-11-favorite-bacteria-art-submissions-from-asms-petri-dish-picasso-contest-0177410/

MICROORGANISM INVESTIGATION.

In order to decide which microorganism are suitable for the work that is going to be developed, an initial investigation is made in order to understand the characteristics of each microorganism, their needs in order to grow, and important information suitable for the project.

• List of bacterias
  • Bacillus Subtilis - (brown)
  • Chromobacterium violaceum - (violet)
  • Escherichia Coli - (colourless)
  • Micrococcus Luteus - (Yellow)
  • Micrococcus Roseus - (Rosa)
  • Proteus Mirabilis / Pseudomonas aeruginosa - (brown)
  • Pseudomonas Fluorescens – (Blue or green) fluorescens with pyoverdine
  • Serratia Marcescens – (Pink or Orange)
  • Staphylococcus aureus – (Yellow)
  • Vibrio Fischeri – (Bioluminescent)

IMAGE REFERECE.