Part II in the De Souche workshop series — April 25th, 2021 from 11h00-12h00
Category: workshops
Miri Chekhanovich in Residence at Maison de la Culture Verdun
Chekhanovich explores bioplastics, spring revelations, human failure, urban malfunction, and the cyclicality of water during a 3-week residency
De Souche Workshop Series – March-May 2021
Can designing with an invasive species build new ecological sensibilities?
[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.
MycoSculpture Workshop Part II
It’s inoculation day! In today’s MycoScuplture workshop, we spent the afternoon learning how to inoculate our sculptures from last week with liquid mycelium. The liquid mycelium has been growing for a couple of weeks in preparation for today. We’ll leave the sculptures to grow for at least 2 weeks—possibly quite a bit longer, depending on…
Bacterial Portraiture—Results
48 hours after the first workshop, we got together to check out the results, learn about bacterial printing, the autoclave process, and about cryopreservation.
Bacterial Portraiture—Painting day
The BioLab led its first Bacteriart workshop of the year yesterday. Inspired by our Jonas Salk bacterial portraits that we created with TAG’s Jess Marcotte this summer and based on a workshop developed by WhiteFeather Hunter—as well as research done by our homegrown research-creation team: The Bactinctorium—the lab decided to explore the use of the…
MycoSculpture Workshop Part I
Théo Chauvirey and Amélie Brindamour facilitated part I of II MycoSculpture workshops this afternoon. Throughout these workshops, participants will explore how mycelium—the fibrous, vegetative part of mushrooms—can be used as a biomaterial for art and design. Today’s workshop focused on creating small sculptures and scaffolds from recycled materials (largely cellulose and protein-based materials such as…
MilieuxMake: Bacterial Portraiture workshop January 27th and 29th
Alexandra Bachmayer and Marc Beaulieu co-facilitate a two-part workshop on the use of bacteria as a creative—living—medium. The workshop will focus on two different portraiture techniques as well as how to culture bacteria to be used as a dye. Through this workshop, participants will learn the basics of sterile technique and other introductory lab skills…
MilieuxMake: MycoSculpture workshop January 24th and 31st
Théo Chauvirey and Amélie Brindamour co-facilitate a two-part introductory workshop on mycelium as a biomaterial for art and design—starting this Friday.
Nathalie Dubois-Calero Animates Micro-Propagation Workshop
As a part of the fall MilieuxMake workshop series, Nathalie Dubois-Calero gave a workshop on plant cloning and introductory micro-propagation techniques last Wednesday. In this session, we tested Nathalie’s new DIY techniques with carrots, garlic, and russet potatoes. We’re going to be checking-up on our samples over the next couple of months and monitoring their…
MilieuxMake Workshop—Cloning Plants: An Introduction to Micro-Propagation
In this workshop biologist & artist Nathalie Dubois-Calero will be teaching DIY methods she developed for the micro-propagation of plants and vegetables from infertile or ‘protected’ samples. By controlling hormone levels during the propagation, we will also be able to affect the growth patterns of the plants, allowing for the creation of unusual plant morphologies. Her processes…
Speculative Life BioLab 