“Is industrial scale the only way in which technology’s viability can manifest itself?”— this and other fundamental questions about the origins and future states of biodesign have been unearthed in a roundtable discussion between key voices in Faber Futures’ biodesign brand Normal Phenomena of Life’s ecosystem: the NPOL team, Maurizio Montalti, Designer and Director of Officina Corpuscoli and MOGU, Kit Mcdonnell, Director of Communications at LanzaTech, and Josef Shanley-Jackson, Founder of Mitre & Mondays. Hosted by Evi Hall, the Managing Director of Disegno Journal, this exploratory conversation brought to the surface themes of language, values, infrastructures, and markets while examining the opportunities and limitations intrinsic to the efforts of shifting away from the capitalist logic in the interest of more planet-centric bio-economies.
Read the full article “At All Scales” in the latest #34 Spring 2024 issue of Disegno Journal.