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ADVANCED BIO-GEOMETRY
Designing for Biomaterial Composites
Faculty: Ricardo Mayor Luque, Nuria Conde Pueyo.

The development of Biomaterials for pharmaceutical delivery, tissue engineering and medical diagnostics have traditionally been based on new chemical processes. However, there is growing recognition that the physical, as well as the chemical properties of materials, can regulate biological responses.
Workshop participants will explore the relation between biomaterial and geometry. The aim of the training session is to enable students hands-on experience on the biomaterials and fabrication issues.

Methodology
The workshop will begin with a depth overview in Biomaterials: Classes and Properties, Living matter, Geometry and recent advances in Biotechnology, Biomaterials, and Tissue engineering. Secondly, the workshop will present a set of design and digital fabrication tools to explore fabrication processes for efficiently generating and producing material combinations.
Students will work individually. Each student will use a base primary material combined with a responsive material to create composite solutions. The composite demands to understand the responsive material behaviour to the different environmental inputs. Students will develop a series of prototypes through explorations with different geometry shapes with regard to the fabrication process.
Prototypes will obtain an advanced information capacity, which could be used as a given design trigger.