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
In the following link is the explained process of how to create art with microorganism and some examples of the artistic possibilities that exist within it.
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXwxU-nIcDY&t=9s
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 and microorganism that can be cultivated in laboratories of high security.
- 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)
- List of bacterias and microorganism that can be cultivated in laboratories of medium/basic security.
- Polycephalum/physarum - (Yellow) tree form
- Clorococcum spec - (green)
- Euglena gracilis - (green)
- Euglena Spirogyra / Lepocinclis Spirogyroides - (green/yellow)
- Haematococcus Pluvialis - (red)
- Volvox Aureus - (granulated green)
- Sternalge / Zygnema spec - (yellow/green) remoline form
- Blepharisma Americana - (red)
- Blepharisma Japonicum - (red)
- Hidra Vulgaris - (white) long straight form
Here is a web page with information about some microorganism, how to cultivate them, the price of some of them. http://www.lebendkulturen.de/