Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (July 14, 2014)

Language: French

ISBN-10: 0500291500

ISBN-13: 978-0500291504

Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 1.1 x 10 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds

Bio Design examines some seventy projects (concepts, prototypes and completed designs) that cover the fields of architecture, industrial processes, education, fine art, material engineering and bioengineering. Each project is illustrated by a short text, images and captions that combine to explain the problems the venture tackles, and how living materials and processes were harnessed to solve them in sustainable and aesthetically pleasing ways. Designers and artists have always looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they been able to alter and incorporate living organisms in their work. In a world with finite resources and a growing population, design that mimics or appropriates the sustainable template of nature is likely to prove as vital as it is novel. Many of the solutions also provoke thought about manipulating life for human ends. From bacteria that can spin microfibrils of pure cellulose for use in the clothing industry to pigeons that fed special bacteria excrete harmless detergent instead of faeces, and from lamps that require blood to function to genetically hacked plants with human DNA biological design is science future here and now.

生物设计了一些七十个项目(概念、原型和设计完成),覆盖领域的建筑、工业流程、教育、艺术、材料工程和生物工程。每个项目都是由一个简短的文本,图片和文字说明,结合解释风险处理的问题,以及如何生活材料和过程是利用在可持续和美观方面来解决这些问题。设计师和艺术家总是向自然寻求灵感和材料,但直到最近,他们能够改变和结合生物在他们的工作。在世界资源有限和不断增长的人口,设计,模仿或挪用了大自然的可持续的模板可能是至关重要的,因为它是小说。许多的解决方案也引发思考操纵人类的生活目的。从细菌可以旋转的纯纤维素微纤维在服装行业使用鸽子,美联储特殊细菌排出粪便无害的洗涤剂,而不是,从灯具要求血液功能基因入侵植物与人类DNA生物设计是科学未来的现在。