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Author Crawford, Assia, author

Title Designer's guide to lab practice / Assia Crawford
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024

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Description 1 online resource
Series Bio design
Bio design
Contents This is not the beginning -- Design in the lab -- Working methods -- Experiments in design -- Where to next?
Summary "This book explores the growing field of bio-design through interdisciplinary creative practice as a research method. The volume illustrates a range of experimental working techniques whilst offering a foundational understanding of lab practice principles. The book highlights the myriad of opportunities presented by microorganisms that have reshaped the planet and made it habitable. The book provides an account of the creation of living materials, from the point of view of an architectural design practitioner. The transition from traditional design practice to laboratory investigation is captured, highlighting strategies of creating partnerships across a range of fields. The book demonstrates laboratory methods and ways of investigating the development of living materials and celebrated the growing body of practitioners, scientists, activists and anthropologists who are reimagining new strategies for addressing contemporary environmental challenges. Designer's Guide to Lab Practice looks at ways in which integrating living components with needs of their own would not only help offset the environmental impact that we have on our planet, but can also create a closer relationship with nature. It is a working manual as well as a guide to emerging practitioners seeking to transition into a field that is yet to be defined and that offers the promise of a new era of human habitat making that is a direct response to the looming ecological crisis"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Building materials -- Testing -- Laboratory manuals
Testing laboratories -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Biotechnology
Architectural design
ARCHITECTURE / General
ARCHITECTURE / Design & Drafting
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023014271
ISBN 9781003363774
1003363776
9781000937435
1000937437
9781000937398
1000937399