“A metro car built with fungus and a dress made of kombucha scoby might seem unrealistic, but Concordia students and researchers are making these ideas a reality.”
Category: lab collaborations
Missing Witches podcast comes to the Biolab
The Speculative Life Biolab discusses the intersection of art, science, and magic.
Speculative Life BioLab researchers featured in Material Futures issue
Several research projects completed by student, affiliate, visiting and faculty researchers is featured in the most recent issue (21) of Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts Quarterly, guest edited by WhiteFeather Hunter. The issue features thesis research by Courtney Books (Queens University) that was carried out in the Speculative Life BioLab, as well as…
Sights of Feeling: The Milieux Institute Expo
An institute-wide event
Prospective Futures: The Aurelia Project
Soil microbial remediation of Nova Scotia’s historic gold mine tailings
Mother
A collaborative project exploring the sculptural and metaphorical potential of SCOBY
Bacteriological Soil Analysis workshop
This workshop, held exclusively for the Speculative Life Research Cluster’s Ethnography Lab research group, Montreal Waterways, will look to bacteriological analysis of soil samples. These samples, collected from the (now destroyed) historical Village des Tanneries, will complement the ethnographic study conducted by the group. Workshop date and time: Thursday, December 14, 3:30-5pm Led by WhiteFeather…
The Bactinctorium
Collaborative research to develop bacteria dyes.
Plump and pliant: experimental fluid retention for keeping formerly living biofilms life-like
MA Conservation thesis research by a visiting student researcher from Queens University.
Lab Meet-up!
The next lab meet-up for current lab users, new lab users and others interested in collaborative work in the lab will be on Monday, October 16th at 2pm! All Milieux members and affiliate researchers are welcome – EV 10.835.
Bucci
Biomaterials research applied to fashion
Physarum Polycephalum play
Collaborative slime mold research + educational outreach activities.
