This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
In the “century of biotechnology”, a new form of “bio-digital industry” is emerging in which, tha... more In the “century of biotechnology”, a new form of “bio-digital industry” is emerging in which, thanks to increasingly sophisticated and digitized technologies that allow engineering and production on a biological quantum scale, it is possible to analyze and reproduce the generative, chemical, physical, and molecular processes underlying natural mechanisms. Inheriting methodologies and technologies from biological fabrication, bio-digital practices foster a new material-based biological paradigm that, bringing biomimicry to a material level, allows designers to observe substances and logic used by nature for assembling and structuring its materials, developing more sustainable and strategic ways for artifice manufacturing, as well as replicating complex, tailored, and emergent biological qualities. The paper aims to describe the new hybrid manufacturing techniques, demonstrating how the transition from form-based to material-based approaches also leads to the change of logic and conce...
DIID, Disegno industriale industrial design/DIID, Feb 19, 2024
Sound is an inescapable part of perceptual experience and, interacting with other senses contribu... more Sound is an inescapable part of perceptual experience and, interacting with other senses contributes to the synesthetic experience. The article investigates the possibilities that Design research can offer from the consistent use of new materials in terms of sensory enhancement and the construction of a memory identity. The sensoaesthetic qualities of these open up new worlds of senses. New biomaterials, in addition to guiding the development of a new sensitivity and towards the acceptance of the material's sincere identity, can help to communicate a new ethical consciousness, transforming sustainability into responsibility, i.e. into a dimension involving not only the objective aspects of matter but also the subjective ones based on pleasantness. The ultimate goal is the construction of a sensory polyphony. A new field of exploration that is recounted here through a design experience developed at Saperi&Co. for the realisation of drumsticks made from discarded peanut shells.
Bio-Augmented Materiality, Towards the Next Biomimicry
Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2022) Integrating People and Intelligent Systems
The paper joins the debate on the emerging material revolution that extends computational and bio... more The paper joins the debate on the emerging material revolution that extends computational and biological principles to matter itself, becoming intrinsically sensitive, active, programmable. It aims to explain how the informed relations between digital, physical and biological worlds are today changing the design practice, as well as the sustainability paradigm. The new concept of “Bio-Augmented Materiality” is presented, which refers to future products no longer made of parts but as “material systems” in which material-product-performance are designed as a single entity through information, growth and adaptation to the context. Finally, this conceptual mutation paves the way to the next biomimicry in which multidisciplinary research strategies and the ability to code and decode life principles are helpful for sustainable scenarios, not simply aimed to reduce the human impact on the ecosystem, rather enhance nature through original forms of cooperation and integration between human, ...
La codificació biològica del disseny i premisses per a una nova generació de productes 'vius': l’exemple de Sinapsi
espanolEl presente articulo describe brevemente el largo e intricado camino que llevo al diseno d... more espanolEl presente articulo describe brevemente el largo e intricado camino que llevo al diseno de Sinapsi, un dispositivo inteligente inspirado en la naturaleza cuyo objetivo es ayudar a las personas invidentes a moverse y orientarse cuando practican atletismo. La descripcion ira acompanada de un analisis de las distintas soluciones que ya existen para ayudar a las personas ciegas y por multitud de ideas –teoricas y metodologicas– que quieren explicar criticamente la funcion renovada del diseno, asi como destacar la importancia de la referencia biologica en un mundo complejo sembrado de inteligencia artificial. En particular, mostraremos que inspirarse en sistemas biologicos puede ser uno de los metodos mas innovadores y asequibles no solo para incluir caracteristicas biologicas en maquinas y artefactos (no es nada nuevo, incluso en IA) sino tambien para utilizarlo en el proceso de diseno de sistemas inteligentes como herramienta para mejorar la calidad de vida y difundir nuestras ...
The following article aims to briefly describe the long and intricate search path which led to th... more The following article aims to briefly describe the long and intricate search path which led to the design of Sinapsi, a smart device inspired by nature, for helping blind people’s mobility and orientation in track and field. The description will be accompanied by an analysis of different solutions already developed for helping blind people and by multiple thoughts, theoretical and methodological, that aim to critically explain the renewed role of design, as well as to highlight the importance of biological reference in a complex world populated by artificial intelligence. In particular, we will show how inspiration from biological systems can be one of the most innovative and attainable methods, not just to incorporate biological characteristics into machines and artifacts (nothing particularly new, even in AI) but to use it in the design process of smart systems as an instrument for improving quality of life and to expand our best human qualities. In fact, the growing complexity de...
The following article aims to briefly describe the long and intricate search path which led to th... more The following article aims to briefly describe the long and intricate search path which led to the design of Sinapsi, a smart device inspired by nature, for helping blind people’s mobility and orientation in track and field. The description will be accompanied by an analysis of different solutions already developed for helping blind people and by multiple thoughts, theoretical and methodological, that aim to critically explain the renewed role of design, as well as to highlight the importance of biological reference in a complex world populated by artificial intelligence. In particular, we will show how inspiration from biological systems can be one of the most innovative and attainable methods, not just to incorporate biological characteristics into machines and artifacts (nothing particularly new, even in AI) but to use it in the design process of smart systems as an instrument for improving quality of life and to expand our best human qualities. In fact, the growing complexity de...
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