Presenting "Felt Experiences with Kombucha Scoby: Exploring First-person Perspectives with Living Matter" at #chi2023 ! We used design research to *listen* to the Kombucha's fermentation, *watch* it grow over time, and *touch* the Scoby's texture 🤎 Mirela Alistar Living Matter Lab

we aim to move towards more-than-human practices within BioHCI by engaging the body as a tool to design with and experience the livingness of organisms

Last week I successfully defended my PhD dissertation “Biomaterials for More-Than-Human Futures”! I am eternally grateful to my advisor (Mirela Alistar), my committee (Laura Devendorf, Daniel Leithinger, Stacey Kuznetsov, and Katia Canepa Vega), and all my friends and family 🫶

The #CHI2023 conference is happening - 3800 people will be in Hamburg this week. Here are some impressing from the first day. More photos are linked from chi2023.acm.org/for-attendees/…

So excited to see more bio work showing up ACM CHI Conference #CHI2023 let's consider more our share livingness with the other non-human beings

Excited to have my new(ish) living matter lab Living Matter Lab be part of ATLAS Institute 🦬 and a consistent presence ACM CHI Conference #CHI2023

The Material interaction session is ending soon #CHI2023 come and talk to me or Netta Ofer if you wanna know more about felt experiences with kombucha ATLAS Institute 🦬 Living Matter Lab

I had an amazing time running a “living leather” workshop with Mirela Alistar at FEMeeting Taos —huge thank you to the organizers (especially TaosHIVE + agneschavez) and all the workshop attendees 🧡 #kombucha #scoby #workshop #biodesign #art #science #technology #feminist

Interested in learning how to develop and implement biomaterials for sustainable tangible interfaces? Sign up for our TEI Conference studio! Learn more here: sites.google.com/view/biomateri… with @EldySteph Nadia Campo Woytuk S / Shanel Mirela Alistar Leah Buechley #hci #sustainability #biomaterials

We're looking for a cool colleague :) The ATLAS Institute at CU-Boulder seeks a curious, unconventional, polymath tenure-track faculty member in creative technology and design. Details on applying: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

If you're attending TEI Conference make sure to check our work - big shout out to Dr. Fiona Bell and Joshua Coffie that got this research Best Pictorial Award - so grateful to have had the chance to work with them Fiona Bell Living Matter Lab ACM SIGCHI #biomaterials #SustainableFuture #HCI

New paper is out! For the ones into sustainability in #SmartTextiles, I’ll be presenting our Open-source Desktop Biofibers Spinning Machine at ACM CHI Conference Research collaboration between Utility Research Lab Living Matter Lab and unstableDesign from @cu_atlas

Starting from a formula based on gelatin 🧪, we made a machine that prints biodegradable fibers for sustainable e-textiles check Eldy Lazaro's work on Mon at 2:45 Room 315 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr… #chi2024 #Sustainability ACM CHI Conference Living Matter Lab ATLAS Institute 🦬 @EldySteph Michael Rivera

We developed a Desktop biofiber spinning machine, to enable prototyping and experimenting with biobased materials at the fiber level. If you would like to experience the biofibers, come find me at #chi2024 For more details, check out our paper: shorturl.at/bfjO5

Thank you so much for attending our SIG. Please expect a follow-up email summarizing the discussion, which will also be available on our SIG website soon. And thanks again to Pedro Lopes, Andreea Danielescu, and Vikram Iyer for co-organizing and delivering the inspiring talks!

Wonderful opportunity to discuss the long-term impact of HCI research, with a focus on ecology. Thank you to the organizers :) ACM CHI Conference ACM SIGCHI #CHI2024