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03-12-2021

Guest lecture at University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada. 
Hosts: Pedro Ressano Garcia; Luis Casillas



26-11-2021
Keynote speaker at SAUL 2021 international and interdisciplinary conference, University of Silesia, Katowice Poland. 


25-11-2021
Lord Norman Foster and Lady Elena Foster visit the Bio-ID lab during their visit to UCL Here East, London UK.
Present: Norman Foster, Elena Foster, Christoph Lindner, Bob Sheil, Peter Scully, Anjali Signh, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz
Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker explaining work to Norman and Elena Foster
Photo credit: Chao Chun Kung


24-11-2021
Inaugural Lecture at the Bartlett International Lecture Series, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London UK. 


11-11-2021
Round table discussion at the opening of the Mias: The Making of Making (Architecture), Disseny Hub, Barcelona Spain.
Moderator: Izaskun Chinchilla
Introduction: Josep Mias, Bob Sheil
Speakers: Josep Maria Montaner, Francesco Santoro, Sebastiano. deUrso, Bob Sheil,  Marcos Cruz
Opening of Josep Mias's exhibition, Disseny Hub Barcelona
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz



11-11-2021
Keynote presentation at the Responsive Cities Conference / Design with Nature, Caixa Forum, Barcelona Spain.
Organisers: IaaC
Chairs of Symposium: Areti Markopoulou; Mathilde Marengo; Chiara Farinea; Fiona Demeur
Speakers: Elora Hardy; Ramon Canal-Oliveras; Daniel Christian Wahl; Ana Coello; Feifei Zhou; Mitchell Joachim; Belinda Tato/Ecosistema Urbano; Chiara Farinea; Skylar Tibbits; Petra Gruber; Jonathan Mitchin; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Debate on Design with Nature / Education: Anna Ramos; Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen; Claudia Pasquero; Jose Pedro Sousa; Martha Thorne



4-5-11-2021
Co-organiser of Design with the Living Conference at the Design Museum, London UK. 
Organisers: Carole Collet; Olivia Bailey; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Provocateurs: Frederic Migayrou; Brenda Parker
Speakers: Anete Salmane; Anthony Acciavatti; Brigitte Kock; Cassie Quinn; Duncan Cameron; Ehab Sayed; Harry Watkins; Henna Burney; Irene Roca Moracia; Juia Jueckstock; Lara Drouet & Olivier Lacrouts; Mriam Josi & Stella Lee Prowse; Monika Brandic Lipinska; Orkan Telhan; Paula Camina Eiras; Peg Rawes; Prantar Mahanta Tamuli; Raquel Prado; Tiago Almeida


3-11-2021
Online Interview about Bio-ID (Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker), Interior Design and Academy magazine, Istanbul Turkey.
Interviewer: Osman Arayici



21-10-2021
Bio-ID at Waste Age exhibition, Design Museum London UK. 
Venue: Design Museum
Curators: Justin McQuirk, Gemma Curtis
Bio-ID Team: Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker with Yao Yao Meng,  Anete Salmane, Pradeep Devadass, James Lawrence, Dali Alnaeb
Technical Support: B-Made UCL
Sponsorship: ASR / Tate & Lyle

CALCAREOUS ARABESQUE – a sustainable wall made from materials generated from the sugar refining process. The robotically extruded structure explores how calcium carbonate and bagasse waste, by-products of the sugar-refining process at Tate & Lyle, can be transformed and scaled-up into and architectural wall prototype. The material and geometric features are highly ornamental, offering important thermal and acoustic properties for indoor spaces. The complex surface morphology was produced with the use of novel self-generative computational designs and digital fabrication, which in turn suggest future outdoor applications as ‘scaffolds for inhabitation’ where ridges and crevices can be occupied by plants and wildlife, helping them to thrive within an urban environment.
TECTONIC CONFERVIANCE - four biomineralised silica-based components generated through the photosynthetic activity of filamentous Cyanobacteria. The biomineralization of recycled glass and silica particles produces a bio-composite with structural integrity that can be used as a new type of tectonic material in architecture. The newly patented components offer unique translucent qualities that can be applied as photosynthetically-active wall components that mediate light from/to indoor spaces. 
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Anete Salmane, Yao Yao Meng, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz at private view
Photo credit: Prantar Tamuli


19-10-2021
Guest-talk at the Sustainability Workshop at the Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid Spain. 
Host: Lord and Lady Foster
Organiser/Mentor: Vishaan Chakrabarti
Speakers: Jan Boelen (Atelier LUMA); Frédérick Bordry (CERN); Jacqueline Glass (The Bartlett/UCL); Guillaume Habert (ETH Zürich); Kieren Jones (Central Saint Martins/UAL; Christoph Lindner (Dean The Bartlett/UCL); Henk Ovink (International Water Affairs); Gil Penalosa (8 80 Cities)



28-09-2021
Bio-ID Open House exhibition with final work of 2020-21, Bartlett School of Architecture, LondonUK. 
Venue: UCL Here East
Programme Directors: Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Tutors: Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik; Bastian Beyer; Sofoklis Giannakopoulus; Harry Watkins; Andreas Koerner; Junichiro Horikawa; Barry Wark; Alex Lacatusu; Ian Robinson, Aurora Tairan Li
Design: Marcos Cruz and Nina Jotanovic with Bio-ID students
Students: (Year 2) Prantar Tamuli; Ella Hetherington; Vasiliki Panagiotidou; Ayelen Francsschini Caouceiro; Daniel Ningkang Wen; Guillem Perutxet Olesti; Gitanjali Ravi; Shivani Rastogi; Dona AlAlula; Nonna Shabanova; Sitthitouch Surabotsopon; Zheyang Yao; Ekaterina Baliaeva; Madeline Maker; Charles Boyd; Jorge Soto; Saumya Gupta; Wen-Chi Huang; Prathiksha Ravi; Ouyang Tinghong; Isabelle Asakura; Alexandros Angelidis; Leyli Kursun; Sohyun Ahn - (Year 1) William Scott; Philia Chua; Junmei Chen; Faraz Alian; Arnav Kele; Sarah Aljishi; Zain Ansari; Ophelie Tousignant; Ebyan Rezgui; Mangesh Kurund; Agathe Chevee; Sarah Olsen; Shenghan Chen; Winnie Lau 
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz



17-09-2021
Bio-ID filed first material patent for a Engineered Living Material, UK
UK Patent Application No. 2113331.9
Applicant: UCL Business Ltd
Date of filing: 17 September 2021
Short Title: Engineered Living Materials
Team: Prantar Tamuli; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz; Anete Salmane; Nina Jotanovic
Photo credit: Prantar Tamuli

9/10-09-2021
Bio-ID Final Crit at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK. 
Students: (Year 2) Prantar Tamuli; Ella Hetherington; Vasiliki Panagiotidou; Ayelen Francsschini Caouceiro; Daniel Ningkang Wen; Guillem Perutxet Olesti; Gitanjali Ravi; Shivani Rastogi; Dona AlAlula; Nonna Shabanova; Sitthitouch Surabotsopon; Zheyang Yao; Ekaterina Baliaeva; Madeline Maker; Charles Boyd; Jorge Soto; Saumya Gupta; Wen-Chi Huang; Prathiksha Ravi; Ouyang Tinghong; Isabelle Asakura; Alexandros Angelidis; Leyli Kursun; Sohyun Ahn
Critics: Robert Stuart Smith (UPenn); Frederic Migayrou (Pompidou/UCL); Garett Sutherlin Santo (Sutherlin Santo LA); Wendy Teo (Architect, Borneo); Phillip Gough (University of Sydney); Salvador Perez Aroyo (Architect, Hanoi); Kostas Girgoriadis (UCL)

21-07-2021
Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for SPOSAD workshop, at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. 
Organiser: Valery Lin, Shnee-Ren Liu


28-06-2021
Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain. 
Tutors: Marcos Cruz; Khunaljit Chahda
Students: Ilaena Mariam Napier; Vatsal Kapadia; Madhavi Ojha; Stefana Florina Zapuc; Aditya Ambare; Michel L'Elise Quintana; Lea Garguet-Duport
Technical Support: Ricardo Mayor Luque
MAA2 coordination: Nikol Kirova
Critics: Phil Ayres; Areti Markopoulou; Shneel Malik; Mathilde Marengo; Khunaljit Chahda; Ricardo Mayor Luque; Marcos Cruz

Photo credit: Ilaena Mariam Napier


9/10-09-2021
Bio-ID Table Discussions - Beyond the Incubator at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK. 
Students: (Year 2) Prantar Tamuli; Ella Hetherington; Vasiliki Panagiotidou; Ayelen Francsschini Caouceiro; Daniel Ningkang Wen; Guillem Perutxet Olesti; Gitanjali Ravi; Shivani Rastogi; Dona AlAlula; Nonna Shabanova; Sitthitouch Surabotsopon; Zheyang Yao; Ekaterina Baliaeva; Madeline Maker; Charles Boyd; Jorge Soto; Saumya Gupta; Wen-Chi Huang; Prathiksha Ravi; Ouyang Tinghong; Isabelle Asakura; Alexandros Angelidis; Leyli Kursun; Sohyun Ahn
Critics: Graham Rook (UCL); Pedro Font (KPF); Andrew Gregson (Greenlab); Blanche Cameron (UCl/EUGIC); Narinder Sagoo (Foster and Partners); Elli Keshavarz-Moore (UCL); Josep Mias (Mias Architecture); Justin Nicholls (Fathom Architects); Ruby Law (RULA); Mike Tonkin (Tonkin Liu Architects); Alice Taylor (CSM)

22-23-04-2021
Presentation at the MIGI workshop
Host/organisation: Brenda Parker; Jake Robinson
Speakers: Graham Rook (UCL); Ross Cameron (University of Sheffield), Araceli Camargo (Centric Lab); Marja Roslund (University of Helsinki); Remco Kort (University Amsterdam); Craig Liddicoat (University of Adelaide); Martin Breed (Flinders University); Marcos Cruz