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Carrete, I.A. (author), Ghodrat, S. (author), Scherer, Diana (author), Karana, E. (author)Plant root growth can be altered by introducing obstacles in the path of growth. This principle is used in design to produce planar grid structures composed of interweaving roots. The Engineered Plant Root Materials (EPRMs) grown with this method have the potential to serve as environmentally sensitive alternatives for conventional materials,...journal article 2023
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Ertürkan, H. (author), Karana, E. (author), Mugge, R. (author)Living materials are a nascent material class where living organisms are embedded and kept alive in the design outcome to achieve novel functionalities, expressions, and interactions. Experiential characterisation studies with potential endusers will provide insights for developing these novel materials for meaningful material<br/>applications....conference paper 2022
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Buso, A. (author), McQuillan, H.L. (author), Jansen, K.M.B. (author), Karana, E. (author)Designers of textile-based interactive systems tend to treat woven fabrics as static materials and lack deeper understandings of how the textile can be designed for responsive behaviours in artefacts. As a result, in most studies across design and HCI, textiles are employed as substrates for computational, biological, or smart materials. This...conference paper 2022
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Zhou, J. (author), Barati, B. (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author), Karana, E. (author)This paper offers a taxonomy of digital tools for crafting habitabilities in biodesign practices. Over the past decade, interest has grown among design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholars to explore the potentials of living organisms for novel responsive behavior and interaction possibilities. Yet, to date, it remains unexplored how...journal article 2022
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Groutars, E.G. (author), Risseeuw, C.C. (author), Ingham, Colin (author), Hamidjaja, Raditijo (author), Elkhuizen, W.S. (author), Pont, S.C. (author), Karana, E. (author)Flavobacteria, which can be found in marine environments, are able to grow in highly organized colonies producing vivid iridescent colorations. While much is known about the biology of these organisms, their design potential as responsive media in user interfaces has not been explored. Our paper aims at bridging this gap by providing insights...conference paper 2022
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Kim, Raphael (author), Zhou, J. (author), Groutars, E.G. (author), Karana, E. (author)Biodesign is an emerging form of design practice integrating biological materials and processes, and there is a growing interest in the field for structured conversations to generate insights on how it can be best taught, researched, and disseminated. In our conversations, we began exploring biodesign under the framework of Living Artefacts, in...conference paper 2022
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Martínez Castro, J.F. (author), Buso, A. (author), Wu, J. (author), Karana, E. (author)Shape-changing textile interfaces have the potential to create unique functions, expressions, and interactions in everyday artifacts. However, the technical expertise required to fabricate and interact with these interfaces limits designers from rapidly iterating through diverse textile expressions. This pictorial presents TEX(alive), a low...conference paper 2022
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D'Olivo, P. (author), Karana, E. (author)Advances in biodesign offer opportunities for developing materials for everyday products from living organisms, such as fungi, algae, and bacteria. Gaining widespread acceptance of new materials from the general public can be a lengthy process, making biodesign a high-risk pursuit with potentially significant economic, ecological, and social...journal article 2021
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Balasubramanian, S. (author), Yu, K. (author), Meyer, Anne S. (author), Karana, E. (author), Aubin-Tam, M.E. (author)Living materials, which are fabricated by encapsulating living biological cells within a non-living matrix, have gained increasing attention in recent years. Their fabrication in spatially defined patterns that are mechanically robust is essential for their optimal functional performance but is difficult to achieve. Here, a bioprinting...journal article 2021
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Zhou, J. (author), Barati, Bahareh (author), Wu, J. (author), Scherer, Diana (author), Karana, E. (author)Technological and economic opportunities, alongside the apparent ecological benefits, point to biodesign as a new industrial paradigm for the fabrication of products in the twenty-first century. The presented work studies plant roots as a biodesign material in the fabrication of self-supported 3D structures, where the biologically and...journal article 2021
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Barati, B. (author), Karana, E. (author), Pont, S.C. (author), van Dortmont, T. (author)This paper aims to provide first insights into flash characteristics of bioluminescent microalgae as a potential media for future living light interfaces. A growing number of HCI and interaction design researchers show interest in living material interfaces, which incorporate living organisms for novel responsive behaviour and interaction...conference paper 2021
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Veelaert, Lore (author), Du Bois, Els (author), Moons, Ingrid (author), Karana, E. (author)Driven by the competitive market that product designers face today, a growing interest emerges in exploring experiential material qualities to enhance product experience. The maturing of the research area calls for standardization to evolve to more streamlined and systematic approaches to conduct characterization experiments. To this aim, we...review 2020
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Karana, E. (author), Barati, B. (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author)Biodesign suggests the integration of living organisms, such as bacteria, algae, fungi, and plants, into design, prevalently as material sources. Designers mobilize livingness of organisms at the design time (e.g., their grow-ability into predefined forms, their ability to release colour in growth, etc.), for achieving a minimal ecological...journal article 2020
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- Karana, E. (author), Nimkulrat, Nithikul (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author), Niedderer, Kristina (author), Fan, Jeng Neng (author) contribution to periodical 2019
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Barati, B. (author), Karana, E. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Over the past years, product designers have been involved in collaborative developments of smart material composites early on in the development process, to showcase creative applications of them. In these projects, the way the material is presented to the development team and the extent to which its properties are defined affect how...journal article 2019
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Appels, Freek V.W. (author), Camere, S. (author), Montalti, Maurizio (author), Karana, E. (author), Jansen, K.M.B. (author), Dijksterhuis, Jan (author), Krijgsheld, Pauline (author), Wösten, Han A.B. (author)Mycelium-based composites result from the growth of filamentous fungi on organic materials such as agricultural waste streams. These novel biomaterials represent a promising alternative for product design and manufacturing both in terms of sustainable manufacturing processes and circular lifespan. This study shows that their morphology,...journal article 2019
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Barati, B. (author), Karana, E. (author)Given the growing interest in “upstream” collaborative projects between designers and materials scientists, it is crucial to scrutinize designers’ creative contribution to materials development beyond “coming up with” application ideas. Overcoming this outdated preconception requires a shift away from the dominant perspective of cognitive...journal article 2019
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Barati, B. (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author), Karana, E. (author)As the material becomes active in disclosing the fullness of its capabilities, the boundaries between human and nonhuman performances are destabilized in productive practices that take their departure from materials. This paper illuminates the embodied crafting of action possibilities in material-driven design (MDD) practices with...conference paper 2018
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Karana, E. (author), Blauwhoff, D.R.L.M. (author), Hultink, H.J. (author), Camere, S. (author)Diverse forms of material expressions can be achieved through practices that cross-fertilize biology and design. Growing Design is one such practice in which designers grow materials from living organisms, such as bacteria, algae or fungi. While this emerging practice may facilitate novel product ideas, the grown materials, to date, are often...journal article 2018
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Sauerwein, M. (author), Karana, E. (author), Rognoli, Valentina (author)The use of materials derived from waste is one of the prominent ways to contribute to sustainable product design. However, there is a stark gap in literature concerning how people appraise such materials. In this paper, we present our initial attempts to understand the aesthetic appreciation of materials, in particular those derived from...journal article 2017
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