transitlab

2011 has been an amazing year for DIYBio/Bioart. Laboratory_life,Lighthouse Arts Brighton, UK Maker Faire Newcastle, Centre for Life, Newcastle, UK  (with Cathal and Jonathan) DIYBio Eu Congress, Code of Ethics, LSE, London, UK Mini Maker Faire, Dome, Brighton, UK – > MicroWaterMonsters Octopus Cut and Cook, Madlab, Manchester, UK Hacterialab20111, Romainmontier/Zurich CH Field_Notes Cultivating Ground, [...]

What I like (a no means exhaustive list that excludes the ever-present friendships and families and networks that sustain me ) : slow science, preservation techniques in times of excess for times of little, systems, and systems analysis, using appropriate technologies, not just the ones that are being sold to us. To learn from other cultures gambiarra/makeshift/makedo/kludge techniques. this [...]

Image by sctv via Flickr A friend of mine recently told me that Transitlab.org was quite random in its choice of subjects, and I agree that it is random in an eclectic way, but understandable if you think of it as this. Transitlab can be expanded to the trans word: transitional. But if we think [...]