Studiolab

Visions of mimicking, synthesising, or designing life forms have an ancient pedigree, bouncing back and forth between the occult, the philosophical, and the scientific. Artists working with the tools of science and technology have also played a key role in shaping and interrogating imaginations of creation – and in revealing the way that tools shape the […]

Following my last blog post about a 1yr research job in Leiden looking into relations between bio-art and science communication, more exciting scholarship news… Our neighbours the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen are currently advertising a PhD scholarship in science communication with a focus on synthetic biology: The student will […]

Visit the new online version of Biohacking – Do It Yourself! and explore the open biology lab at Medical Museion through photos, recipes, texts and videos: [flickrset id=”72157632996879533″ thumbnail=”thumbnail” photos=”7″ overlay=”false” size=”small”] In the online exhibition you can look at pictures and videos from events in the open lab, browse through links to hacker spaces […]

Here’s my short speech at the opening of Biohacking: Do it yourself! last Thursday evening: In true hacker style, this opening is somewhat ad hoc-ish. We will spend about 20 minutes up here in the old auditorium; several people will say a few introductory words each, in several languages. Then — because there isn’t room for […]

From January 25th, Medical Museion will house an open biohacking laboratory, pieced together from recycled furniture, IKEA cabinets, and cheap “hacked” instruments made by do-it-yourself biologists from BiologiGaragen and Hackteria. At a series of hands-on events and discussions, visitors are invited to step inside the world of practical biotechnology, and encounter the dreams and realities […]

At Medical Museion we’re currently working on the project From Kitchen Sink to Museum: Doing and Debating Synthetic Biology, in collaboration with biohackers from the Copenhagen ‘maker space’ Labitat. We have invited the biohackers to use the museum space as their space – as a laboratory where workshops and events will take place, thereby communicating […]

  What is “hacking”? A way to customize one’s surroundings by readily available means.  At a recent workshop on biohacking organized by Labitat in collaboration with Medical Museion I tried a very fine hack – a web cam customized for communicating microbiology. The hack is based on an ordinary cheap web cam. With a small screw […]

Our collaborators at the biohacker space in Copenhagen, BiologiGaragen@Labitat are hosting a networking event bringing together biohackers, sociologists of science, scientists, science communicators and science policy makers. The event promises to provide an exciting maker-space, not just for lab set-ups, but also for forging connections and encouraging debate about the ways and means of making […]

Our local biohacker space in Copenhagen, BiologiGaragen @ Labitat, is hosting a workshop on the last weekend in August inviting people to get hands-on with DNA and the lab equipment you need to work with it. The flyer below gives a taste of some of the exciting activities and discussions that will be going on, […]

A pile of seed bombs gradually spreads across the floor of Science Gallery Dublin, hands shaping mud, clay, and seeds in the culmination of a project to sow plants into the gaps of top-down city planning. A helicopter drone lazily swings from the ceiling upstairs, next to a video of the footage it collected when […]

Earlier this week Louise Whiteley and I visited Labitat preparing for a project that aims to combine synthetic biology, design, democracy and the museum – easy, when you are (getting to) know the right people … “Labitat is a makerspace in CPH. We are a group of people with diverse interests in technology. We are […]

At the end of January, Karin Tybjerg and I visited Dublin’s Science Gallery for the closing event of their exhibition ‘Surface Tension: The Future of Water’. The exhibition is one of Science Gallery’s contributions to the EU funded StudioLab platform, which brings together institutions including Le Laboratoire (Paris), Royal College of Art (London), Ars Electronica […]