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 As designers, scientists and artists we build a platform for art/science projects through digital fabrication experiments and traditional craftmanship. We want to change the cultural perception of bacteria, mushrooms, algae and any other bio-agents and promote the idea of sustainability through biomimicry and biohacking. At the same time, we want to develop new -interactive- materials with multiple life-cycles.
+{{:grow-your-beehive:resultsbrussels1:info-skin.pdf|Info on working with Microbial Skins}}
+[[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-981-10-0522-0_6|Springer paper]]
 MOST RECENT POSTS ON TOP OF THE PAGE
+=====7/6/2017 results of sculpting with skin in Brussels=====
+{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:resultsbrussels1}}
+=====1/6 growing skins in Barcelona=====
+{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:2ndbeehive}}
+=====18/4 onwards... cut and paste, skin patterns and results=====
+{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:skinpattern}}
+{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:skinpattern2}}
+{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:skinbcn}}
+{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:results-1}}
 =====10/4/2017 - grow your own beehive=====
+Assemblage-based sculptures in industrial and organic materials, exploring the confluence of science and the natural world.
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-=====18/4/2017 cut and paste, skin patterns=====
-{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:skinpattern}}
-{{gallery>:grow-your-beehive:skinpattern2}}
 =====8/4/2017 - large growing container=====
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+Saturday March 8th Marcin and me transformed a low greenhouse (330cm x 150cm) into a large grow-container for skins. It was 25°C, the ideal temperature for a culture start-up. We flattened the soil in the old greenhouse and we clad the bottom and the walls with a thick black pond-plastic. I made a growth medium with 30 buckets (of 10liters = total 300l) demineralised water, 30kg of sugar, 225 teabags, 8 scoby's and 3l starter liquid. The total liquid was ± 10 to 15cm in height.
+The t° in the glass-covered greenhouse -I left some 'aeration holes' at both sides- rose quickly to 25°C, but at night it dropped to 14°C. But the worse had still to come. After a few days, the weather took a turn down and for 3 weeks in a row now, the weather is really below average normal temperatures for this time of the year. Sometimes it even freezes at nights! Average temperute in daytime is about 10 to 12°C. This bad weather gave me quickly a mold invasion during the first days. As a remedy, I added a bottle of white vinegar (1,5l) and another 3 liters of 'old' starter liquid with a very acid Ph. This more acid environment killed the mold, but at the same time the medium was too acid for a skin culture to take off. In 1 week temperature should finally become a bit higher. I will add another few liters of green tea with sugar and I hope the fermentation process will take off and the scoby mothers will start growing a skin... finally ...
+04052017 - Despite the ultra bad weather this whole month of april 2017, even continuing now beginning of May, the skin in the big batch container is starting to grow. It is still ultra thin and has a lot of (fermentation) bubbles. The acidity Ph is 3 and on May 4th at 6pm, the temperature of the growthmedium was 15°C. I guess it will take another few weeks at least before the skin is strong enough to harvest.
+Contrarely, the skins that I've put to grow in the greenhouse are doing well. Both started the skin formation after a few days and they continue ... I will harvest them beginning of June.
 =====30/3/2017 - digital modelling=====
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 First digital beehives, modelled in Blender and printed on a XYZ junior DaVinci printer.
+Wood filament: [[http://www.formfutura.com/285mm-filaments/speciality/wood/|woodfilament]] en [[https://www.trideus.be/en/woodfill.html|woodfilament]]
 =====4/3/2017 - dyeing with natural dyes=====
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+=====basic research=====
+information on the 3 basic elements that are important for growing my membranes:
+- bacteria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria)
+- fermentation process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation)
+- skin / leather (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather)