Workshop: Rapid Liquid Printing

In this input workshop the question was: What if we could grow living materials and organisms directly into products? Based on the current research results of the BioLab in the ’BIOTUBES’ project, the students experimented with shaping three-dimensional habitats for microorganisms. For this purpose, they mixed and tested their own printing pastes based on regional waste materials and biological binders and printed them in a gel bed using a 3D paste printer. Once printed, the structures can be removed from the gel and autoclaved before being inoculated with the organisms. The workshop gave the students a sense of materiality, quantity ratios, consistencies, drying behaviour and trained them to document their experiments in lab protocols.