News / Events 2019

2025   2024   2023   2022   2021   2020   2019   2018   2017   2016   2015   2014   2013   2012   2011   2010   2009   2008   2007   2006   2005   2004


12/13-12-2019
Bio-ID Crit at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK. 
Students: (Year 2) Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar; (Year 1) Vicky Panagiotidou, Charles Boyd, Madeline Baker, Shivani Rastogi, Gitanjali Ravi, Ella Hetherington, Mac van Dam, Prantar Tamuli, Isabelle Asakura, Nonna Shabanova, Sitthitouch Surabotsopon, Jorge Soto Parejas, Yao Zheyang, Ayelen Franceschini, Prathiksha Ravi, Saumya Gupta, Leyli Kursun, Dona Alalula, Perutxet Olesti, Ekaterina Baliaeva, Sohyun Ahn, Alexander Angelidis, Barna Soma Biro, Wen-chi Huang, Ouyang Ting Hong, Ningkang Wen
Critics: Prof Omar Kahn, Prof Phillip Beasley, Prof Jon Yoder, Justin Nichols, Barry Buckland, Dr Naveraj Gill, Andreas Koerner, Barry Wark, Lilah Fowler, Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, Prof Mike Hoare, Dr Mike Sulu, Dr Bastian Bayer, Dr Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Prof Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

14-11-2019
Bio-ID with work of Nina Jotanovic 'Biogenic Luminosity' in exhibition at Share X, Bucharest, Romania. 
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz


14-11-2019
Interview for 'Designing the profile fo the Future Architecture' by Andrea Robu-Movila, Bucharest, Romania. 


14-11-2019
Keynote speaker at Share X - Conference of Advanced Architecture, Bucharest, Romania. 
Speakers: Sanjai Puri; Spela Videcnik; Bogdan Zaha; Mariano Efron; Pepe Gascon; Vlad Temu; Lara Zureikat; Natalie Redford; Anna Wendt
Photo credit: Vlad Dediu


08-11-2019
Design with the Living, Design Museum, London UK. 
Organisers: Barnard Hay, Carole Collet, Brenda Parker, Helene Steiner, Marcos Cruz
Speakers: Brenda Parker, Carole Collet, Nina Jotanovic, Helene Steiner, Elvin Karana, Marcus Walker, Nancy Diniz, Thomas Meany, Martyn Dade-Robertson
Chairs: Marcos Cruz, Carole Collet, Helene Steiner
Introduction: Justin McGuirk
Keynote lecture: Natsai Audrey Chieza


19-10-2019
Bioreceptive component in show at Beyond the Horizon - Design for Different Futures, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.
Photo credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art

October 2019
Bioreceptive Lightweight Concrete featured in 'Designs for Different Futures - catalogue of the Beyond the Horizon - Design for Different Futures exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, USA. 
Editors: Kathryn B Hiesinger, Michelle Millar, Fisher, Emmet Byrne, Maite Borjabad Lopez Pastor, Zoe Ryan

September 2019
Bio-Integrated Design - Marcos Cruz interviewed by Jordi Vivaldi, in IaaC Bits / Black Ecologies pp. 76-89, Barcelona Spain. 
Editors: Manuel Gausa, Areti Markopoulou, Jordi Vivaldi


24-09-2019
Bio-ID in show at B.PRO Final Exhibition, London UK. 
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Venue: Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz


19-09-2019
Bio-ID with work of Nina Jotanovic 'Biogenic Luminosity' in exhibition at Biodesign Here and Now, Open Cell (as part of the London Design Week), London UK.
Exhibition: Nina Jotanovic with Gea van der Kerkhof and Silvia Vignolini (Cambridge University)
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz


14-09-2019
Bio-ID with INDUS in exhibition at Brompton Design Festival (as part of the London Design Week), London UK.
Project: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz
Technical Collaboration: Laura Stoffels, Anete Salmane, Kayan Patel
Fabrication: Froyle Tiles
Support: Pure Earth and Delhi University India; Algae UK and EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Marcos Cruz, Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker
Photo credit: Wanda Hu


August 2020
INDUS/Bio-ID project (winner of Future Systems and Infrastructure + wiiner of Audience Award) published in 'Where will the water come from / One Year of Water Futures' pp. 181-184, A/D/O research 0001, New York USA. 
Team: Shneel Malik, Dr Brenda Parker, Prof Marcos Cruz
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

12-07-2019 (15-07-2019 - 13-09.2019)
Opening Bio-ID in exhibition at the 'New Forms of Practice / Drivers of Change' show, ARUP gallery, London UK. 
Exhibition curators: Ruairi Glynn, Jennifer Greitschus
Exhibition teams: Design for Manufacturing (DfM); Design for Performance and Interaction (DfPI); Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Table design: Marcos Cruz with Shneel Malik and Nina Jotanovic
Table assembly/curation: Marcos Cruz; Brenda Parker; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz with Bio-ID students
Bio-ID participants: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane/Marcos Cruz
Panel discussion: Brenda Parker (Bio-ID/UCL Biochemical engineering); Sara Caddik (Thalamic); Bob Sheil (Bartlett); Tristram Carfrae (Arup)
Bio-ID Table of Curiosities
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
The Amazing Bio-ID team!
Photo credit: Ram Shergill
The whole Bio-ID group with students, Paolo Bombelli, Lena Asai (only Javier Ruiz missing)
Photo credit: Ram Shergill
Table Ecology
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz
Photo credit: Ram Shergill


10-07-2019
Guest lecture at the IaaC Global Summer School, 2019.
Simultaneous broadcasting: Manila/Philippines, Monterrey/Mexico, Pune/India, Barcelona/Spain, Melbourne/Australia, Dubai/UAE, Istanbul/Turkey, Tehran/Iran, Beirut/Lebanon.
Organisers/hosts: Aldo Sollazzo, Laura Ruggeri, Rodrigo Aguirre


28-06-2019
CRIT of Bio-ID at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK. 
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: Ricardo de Ostos, Maj Plemenitas, Bastian Bayer, Andrew Porter, Bob Sheil, Bill Watts, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Lena Asai; Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz


24-25.06.2019
Bio-ID in exhibition at the SYNBITECH 2019, London.
Venue: Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster London
Bio-ID work exhibited: Nina Jotanovic
Bio-ID panel discussion speaker: Brenda Parker
Curator: Helene Steiner
Photo credit: Nina Jotanovic


25-06-2019
Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain. 
Students: Elliott Santos; Yasmina El Helou; Marc Bou Assaf; Umit Ceren Bayazitoiglu; Abishek Soman
Technical Support: Khunaljit Chahda; Ricardo Mayor Luque
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Aldo Sollazzo; Paolo Bombelli; Areti Markopoulou; Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda; Marco Ingrassia
work by Umit Ceren Bayazitoiglu 
work by Elliott Santos
work by Abishek Soman
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

10-05-2019
Presentation and panel discussion - Nature Salons / Encouraging Growth - as part of the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York USA.
Chair: Andrea Lipps 
Speakers (second session): Amy Congdon, Richard Beckett, Marcos Cruz 


9-05-2019
2 bioreceptive panels in exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial - Nature (in collaboration with CUBE GALLERY, Netherlands), Smithsonian Design Museum, New York USA.
Bartlett Team: Marcos Cruz with Richard Beckett and Javier Ruiz
Curators: Caitlin Condell, Andrea Lipps, Matilda McQuaid 
Participants:  UNDERSTAND NATURE   -  Kim Albrecht and Barabási Lab, Northeastern University (Germany and United States); Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja, Cave Architects (Kenya); Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, Ensamble Studio (Spain and United States); Tracy Fullerton, Game Innovation Lab, University of Southern California (United States); Aliki van der Kruijs (The Netherlands); Giorgia Lupi, Accurat and Kaki King (Italy and United States); Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler, Mischer’Traxler Studio (Austria); Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design for Banfield Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (United States)
Thomas Thwaites (United Kingdom); Charles Reilly, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States); James Weaver, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States)  -  SIMULATE NATURE  -  
Airbus, Autodesk, and APWorks (The Netherlands, United States, and Germany); Ramille Shah and Adam E. Jakus, Dimension Inx LLC & Adam Jakus Technology as Art (United States); Festo AG & Co. KG (Germany); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Sissel Tolaas, and Christina Agapakis, Ginkgo Bioworks (United Kingdom, Norway, and United States); Alexandra Kehayoglou (Argentina); Mathieu Lehanneur (France); Jifei Ou and Hiroshi Ishii, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Michelin (France); Modern Meadow (United States); Gabriel Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil, threeASFOUR and Travis Fitch (United States); David Mooney, Mooney Lab for Cell and Tissue Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States)  -  SALVAGE NATURE  -  Adidas and Parley (Germany and United States); Studio Eric Klarenbeek and Atelier Luma (The Netherlands and France); Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck, Atelier NL (The Netherlands); Anirudh Sharma, Graviky Labs (India); Shahar Livne (The Netherlands); Julia Lohmann, Violaine Buet, and Jon Lister (Finland, France, and New Zealand); Kirstie Van Noort (The Netherlands)  -  FACILITATE NATURE  -   Ginger Krieg Dosier, bioMASON (United States); Amy Congdon (United States); Natsai Audrey Chieza, Faber Futures (United Kingdom); Alex Goad, Reef Design Lab (Australia); Caleb Harper and Hildreth England, Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg), MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Erez Nevi Pana (Austria); Arturo Vittori, Architecture and Vision and Warka Water Inc. (Italy and United States); Xu Tiantian, DnA_Design and Architecture (China)  -  AUGMENT NATURE  -  Sam Van Aken (United States); Sputniko! and Masaya Kushino, Another Farm (Japan); Guillermo Parada, Tamara Pérez, Sebastián Rozas, and Victor Imperiale, gt2P (great things to People) (Chile); Josiah Zayner, The Open Dictionary Institute (The ODIN) (United States); Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Living Materials Silklab, Tufts University Biomedical Engineering (United States); Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, The Tissue Culture and Art Project (Australia); Richard Novak, Elizabeth Calamari, and Chuck Hoberman, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States)  -  REMEDIATE NATURE  -  Coeio (United States); Ulrika K. Stigsdotter, University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Harvard Biodesign Lab, Harvard University (United States); Nienke Hoogvliet, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet (The Netherlands); Fernando Laposse (United Kingdom); Sheng-Hung Lee (Taiwan); Max Liboiron, CLEAR (Canada); Charlotte McCurdy (United States); Terreform ONE (United States)  -  NURTURE NATURE  -  Marcos Cruz with Richard Beckett and Javier Ruiz, Bartlett UCL (United Kingdom); Teresa Van Dongen (The Netherlands); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (United Kingdom); Jorge Gamboa (Mexico); MASS Design Group (United States); Michael Strano and Seon-Yeong Kwak, MIT Chemical Engineering and Sheila Kennedy, MIT Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Sambuichi Architects (Japan); Vo Trong Nghia (VTN) Architects (Vietnam)
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz


22-04-2019
Interview with Marcos Cruz on bioreceptive walls mentioned in article 'The home of the future could be powered by microbes', published in One Zero (article by Thomas McMullan) 2019.


12-04-2019 (until 12-09-2019)
Bio-ID in exhibition at the 'Worda / Water' show, Zamek Ceiszyn, Poland. 
Venue: Zamek Ceiszyn
Bio-ID work exhibited: INDUS / Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz
Curator: Katarzyna Dorda
Photo credit: Katarzyna Dorda


4-04-2019
Bio-ID wins the Water Design Future's international competition (category Systems and Infrastructures + Public Vote!) with project INDUS - the future of water remediation + exhibition at ADO gallery, New York USA.
Organisation: A/D/O
Team: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cuz, with collaboration of Laura Stoffles
Photo credit: Shneel Malik
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz


30-03-2019
Presentation at the symposium Vertigo / La Fabrique du Vivant, at IRCAM / Centre Pompidou, Paris France.
Organisation: Marie-Ange Brayer, Olivier Zeitoun
Speakers: Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros (artist), Maurizio Montalti (Officina Corpuscoli, The Netherlands), David Benjamin (architect), Teresa van Dongen (designer), Guillian Graves (designer), Stéphane Douady (physicist, director of research CNRS), Amy Karle (artist), Hongjie Yang (designer, researcher), Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (artist, designer), Julian Melchiorri (engineer, designer), Donald Ingberg (biologist and director of the Wyss Institute, University of Harvard), Philippe Marlière (biologist), Claudia Pasquero (architect, EcologicStudio), Anouk Legendre (XTU Architects, Paris), Spela Petric (artist), Jean Luc Hervé (composer), Annick Lesne (physicist, director of research CNRS), and Marcos Cruz (architect, Bio-ID).



5/7-03-2019
Bioreceptive Panel in exhibition at FUTUREBUILD 2019, as part of The Concrete Centre / MPA exhibition - The Shape of Things to Come, London UK.
Organisation: The Concrete Centre
Venue: ExCeL centre, London
Team: Marcos Cruz with Javier Ruiz and Richard Beckett, with collaboration of Nina Jotanovic and Anete Salmane.
Biology: Rushi Mehta
Manufacturing: Pennine Stone Limited
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz


18-02-2019
Bio-ID (Marcos Cruz, Brenda Parker with Shneel Malik) in exhibition at 'La Fabrique du Vivant', Centre Pompidou, (as part of the series Mutations/Creations 3), Paris France. 
Curators: Marie-Ange Brayer; Olivier Zeitoun
Participants: Shamees Aden ; Laure Albin Guillot ; François Azambourg ; Heather Barnett ; Sonja Baümel et Manuel Selg ; BCL (Georg Tremmel + Shiho Fukuhara); Hicham Berrada ; Burton Nitta (Michael Burton et Michiko Nitta) ;  Julian Charrière ; Natsai Audrey Chieza ; Carole Collet ; Amy Congdon ; Marcos Cruz & Brenda Parker (Bio-ID Lab, The Bartlett School); The Disease Biophysics Group de l’Université d’Harvard ; Alexandre Echasseriau ; Jonas Edvard ; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Christina Agapakis et Sissel Tolaas ; Lia Giraud ; Guillian Graves (Big Bang Project) ; Andreas Greiner ;  Ernst Haeckel ; Perry Hall ; Jean-Luc Hervé ; Marlène Huissoud ; Eduardo Kac ; Amy Karle ; Allison Kudla ; Joris Laarman ; The Living (David Benjamin) ; Julia Lohmann ; Julian Melchiorri ; MIT Media Lab (Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao) ; Mogu ; Isaac Monté ; Gabriela Munguia ; Officina Corpuscoli ; Neri Oxman & The Mediated Matter Group, MIT ; Jean Painlevé ; Claudia Pasquero et Marco Poletto (EcoLogicStudio);  Institut Pasteur ; Špela Petrič ; PILI (Marie-Sarah Adenis) ; Pamela Rosenkranz ; Daan Roosegaarde ; Karl Sims ; Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi et Simone Farresin) ; Studio Nienke Hoogvliet (Nienke Hoogvliet) ; Studio Klarenbeek & Dros ; Studio Libertiny (Tomas Libertiny) ; The Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr) en collaboration avec Robert Foster ;  Samuel Tomatis  ; Urban Morphogenesis Lab (The Bartlett UCL) ; Tim van Cromvoirt ; Teresa van Dongen ; Elaine Whittaker ; Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; Wyss Institute de l’Université d’Harvard ; XTU Architects (Anouk Legendre et Nicolas Desmazières) ; Hongjie Yang ; Tokujin Yoshioka 
Venue: Centre Pompidou, Paris
Dates: 20.02.19 - 15.04.19
Marcos Cruz and Shneel Malik
looking at 50cm dishes for bioremediation/biosorption/biophotovoltaic research
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Bioreceptive Wall panels
Design for the St Anne's Catholic Primary School in London
Photo credit: Sarah Lever


January 2019
Interview 'Interdisciplinary Architecture Approaches - with Marcos Cruz', published in Arredamento MIMARLIK (ed Idil Yucel Inal), Turkey, 2019 (pp. 51-57).