Letting partially go of control

This card encourages embracing adaptability and evolution by partially letting go of control in the biodesign process.

• What are the controllable and the uncontrollable factors in your biodesign project?

• How will you make the uncontrollable factors measurable and observable over time?

• How are you planning to design around or with the uncontrollable factors?

Silk Pavilion

Silk Pavilion is a project at MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter group, where at first a manmade structure of silk thread was created, after on which 6.500 silk worms were released. These worms naturally generated silk threads, reinforcing the overall manmade threaded structure. In their pupation stage, the worms had been removed, because the resulting moths would have produced 1,5 million eggs, enough to generate 250 more such structures.

• Identify uncontrollable changes early on and  determine how to make them observable.

• Brainstorm ways these uncontrollable factors can add value to your biodesign project.

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