BIO DESIGN for the REAL WORLD

Biodesign for the Real World is a project that aims to enable crowd sourcing water quality data as empowered citizen scientists.

This interdisciplinary and collaborative project will define, build, and field-test prototypes that require the integration of wetware, hardware, and software to address  real world water problems. The project can be offered as a  bachelor or master's project, with a distinct open-source approach to make a field-robust bio/chemical/electronic sensor elements and crowd sourced mapping of results. The project is partnered with design students from the Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India, and the LifePatch citizen initiative in art, science and technology. The protypes built during the project will then be field tested in Switzerland, India and Indonesia.

With the three partner sites and in the spirit of open source and Do-It-Yourself (DIY), we are currently working on

• device with a bioreporter that can detect Arsenic in water to the WHO level of 50 ppb.
• water sampling devices
• mobile laboratories
• coliform bacteria micro-colony detection
• community out reach and workshop building
• mapping such data

We have 5 new members joining the team for Spring 2015.

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NEW!

2014.12.31 - We are welcoming 5 new members to the team for Spring 2015.