Can designing with an invasive species build new ecological sensibilities?
Author: speclifebiolabtech
[Workshop] Kombucha @ Home — Feb 19th
MilieuxMake is happy to announce as part of the winter 2021 line-up, the first in a series of BioLab@Home Workshops, where we will begin to look at using the kitchen as a safe bio-research space, introducing methods of material-creation, adapted for the home.
Fossilation at the Centre Pompidou
The Speculative Life Cluster BioLab presents the installation Fossilation at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris (February 1 to 14, 2021).
Retake/Reprise de vues at La nuit des idées
On January 28th, Milieux researchers and student members presented at an event organized as part of La nuit des idées.
MT180 Competition Final—Nov 19th
Vanessa Mardirossian represents Concordia at the final this Thursday at 3:30 pm EST
Ecologies of Experience: Systems & Art—Oct 30th
Matthew Halpenny gives a Convergence SCI-ART ART-SCI Conferences talk this Friday
Cyclical Matters—Live Cooking Show, a recap
The Cyclical Matters Collective spent last Tuesday morning talking bioplastic vessels, algae-based polymers, and creative research methodologies for pandemic collaboration. In conversation with lab director Alice Jarry, chemist Yves Gélinas, and the entire Critical Materiality class, this research-creation team walked—and cooked!—us through their method for making agar bioplastic tableware. They explored how to modify the…
Cyclical Matters *Live* on October 20th
As a part of Sympoïétiques, BioLab research collective Cyclical Matters are going live Tuesday morning for a bioplastic cooking show and public discussion with Lab Director Alice Jarry and Chemist Yves Gélinas. Tune in from 10am to 11:30am on Tuesday, October 20th. This event will be streamed for free on Youtube and in the LIVE…
Vanessa Mardirossian participates in Three Minute Thesis competition
Yesterday, as part of the international 3MT/MT180 competition, Biolaber Vanessa Mardirossian presented her doctoral research—La face cachée de la matière: une écolittératie du vêtement par une approche moléculaire de la couleur dans une practique écoresponsable du design textile—in a concise and accessible format: one PowerPoint slide and a three minute time limit! In the lab,…
Virtual Film Screening: The Creeping Garden—May 21st
Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab and the Milieux Speculative Life BioLab for a special screening of Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp’s creative documentary
Artist Talk: From operation to cooperational aesthetics *CANCELLED*
The BioLab is hosting Samuel Bianchini on Thursday, March 19th, 2020 from 4:30-6:00pm.
Amélie Brindamour | Résidence CQAM-Milieux 2019
In early December, CQAM came to the Biolab to film artist-in-residence Amélie Brindamour in action and to talk about her mycelium research that took place over the course of her residency. This video is the product of that discussion! In the video, lab director Dr. Alice Jarry gives a short introduction to the Biolab and…
Speculative Life BioLab 