BioFutures Symposium 2023
This launch event starts on Tuesday 4th July 2023 at 13:15 and ends on Friday 7th July 2023 at 14:45. You are invited to join a series of themed half-day sessions.
The BioFutures Symposium 2023 is hosted by the BioFutures IDRT, one of seven Northumbria University Interdisciplinary Research Themes (IDRTs).
BioFutures IDRT's ambition is to perform world leading research in design-led innovation through biology-centred technology and engineering. By combining design thinking with biotechnology, we seek to create sustainable and socially responsible products and services that can benefit society and the environment. Biotechnology is entering a new stage in its development, leaving the laboratory, and entering the real world. This creates new challenges and innovation opportunities to develop challenge-led solutions through design thinking.
Through the BioFutures Symposium 2023, we would like to connect educators, researchers, design practitioners, industrialists and students from biology, engineering, environmental sciences, architecture, fashion, innovation design, computer sciences and social sciences, to showcase and discuss the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration.
The symposium will have sections covering the following areas: wearable biosensors, biological fabrication of smart materials / novel biomaterials, waste valorisation, biological interface materials, AI-designed life, and design education for BioFuture, concluding with industry perspectives on BioFutures.
Find out more: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2023/07/biofutures-symposium-2023/