Biodesign Challenge & Mars Soil Bio-Threads

PROJECT RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Design exploration that asks for new ways to foster the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of people with food systems that also support the health of the environment. 

This project was developed for the Biodesign Sprint 2022 in alliance with Mars Wrigley in collaboration with the team Agrolab. This project proposes an open source biodesign manual to create soil in the form of living textiles (bio-threads) to grow food. The main aim is to discover new ways of making fertile soils accesible for everyone everywhere, rethinking the idea of soil and inspired and being aware that soil it's actually an interwoven network. The guide is developed for DIY soil bio-threads, that can be made out of water, animal manure, earthworm compost, home-made residues, soil microorganisms isolations, mycorrhizae, rhizobacteria and mycelium, mixed with organic structural biomaterials such as agar, alginate and jelly, offering plants a wide variety of surfaces to grow, and each bio-thread material can provide the necessary nutrients to the plant. This project imagines new potential biosocial relationships and methodologies, in order to create a symbiotic-city community, in which anyone in the world can access, create and rethink the soil and green the cities through these new "fertile bio-thread soils of the future".