selected Exhibitions
12.02.2016 - 28.04.2018
Coded Couture
On show at the following venues:
+ Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
+ Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
+ Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, USA
+ Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma, USA
+ CAM | Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, USA
+ Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, USA
09.07.2016 - 04.09.2016
Hybrids: Interspecies Collaboration in Craft and Design
The National Centre for Craft and Design, Lincolnshire, UK
30.06.2016 - 24.07.2016
Utopia Lab
Somerset House, London, UK
09.06.2016 - 28.08.2016
Biological Atelier: The Showroom | SOLO SHOW
Manchester Craft & Design Centre, Manchester, UK
22.02.2016 - 28.02.2016
OFF THE GRID - Design Visions for Economy
Munich Creative Business Week, Alte Kongresshalle, Munich, Germany
22.10.2015
BIOFABRICATE 2015: Design Lab Exhibition
Microsoft Headquarters, Times Square, New York, USA
28.05.2015 - 31.05.2015
Biodesign
Curated by William Myers for Home & Style Fair, Bursa, Turkey
07.01.2015 - 04.02.2015
Crafting Anatomies
Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
04.12.2014
BIOFABRICATE 2015: Design Lab Exhibition
Microsoft Headquarters, Times Square, New York, USA
23.10.2014 - 25.10.2014
Bio:Fiction Film Festival
Quanticare selected as part of the Bio:Fiction Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
17.10.2014 - 24.10.2014
Imagine Science Film Festival
Quanticare selected as part of the 2014 Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, USA
13.09.2014 - 20.10.2014
Material Change
By Pringle of Scotland and Disegno for London Design Festival
Pringle of Scotland Flagship Store, London, UK
13.09.2014 - 20.09.2014
Restless Futures
Part of London Design Festival, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
23.01.2014 - 13.02.2014
Big Data: Designing with the Materials of Life
Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
1 Nov - 10 Nov 2013
Design Beyond Making
Curated by Vectors for Protein Gallery London, London, UK
30.10.2013 - 14.01.2014
Scientific Skin
MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria
26.04.2013 - 01.10.2013
ALIVE: New Design Frontiers
Curated by Carole Collet for Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, France
14.09.2013 - 21.09.2013
Vaettir
Shown as part of Clerkenwell, part of London Design Festival, London, UK
30.04.2012 - 25.05.2012
Window Gallery Exhibitions
Canada Walk, Canary Wharf, London, UK
Speaking
26.04.2016
“Tissue Engineering: a multidisciplinary approach”
Crick Chat Series, run by The Francis Crick Institute, held at Central Saint Martins, London, UK
14.04.2016
“Fashion + Technology + Sustainability = Future Reality?”
FashTech Summit, London, UK
09.02.2016
"Will the Next Alexander McQueen Be a Biologist?"
Brooklyn Fashion & Design Accelerator, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24.07.2015
"Curiosity Box"
Festival of Curiosity Headline Event, Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland
23.07.2015
"DESIGN FUTURES - Fashion, Body & The Mind"
Festival of Curiosity, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
18.05.2015
"Biotextil" Symposium
Textiel Commissie, National Museum of Ethnology Leiden, Netherlands
20.01.2015
"Future Fashion: Growing Materials in the Lab"
Fashiontech Berlin, Berlin Germany
04.12.2014
"Fashioning Biology Session"
BIOFABRICATE Summit, Microsoft Headquarters, Times Square, New York, USA
26.11.2014 - 27.11.2014
"Developing a Hybrid Textile practice within the tissue engineering laboratory: Working with living materials in design."
Transitions Conference, Huddersfield University, UK
20.11.2014
"Biomaterials"
‘Make:Shift’ Crafts Council Conference, Ravensbourne University, London
30.10.2014
‘Nature – Material – Culture: the practice and understanding of biotechnology’
Hybrid Talks Series, Berlin, Germany
02.10.2014
‘How Sustainable is it?’
Best of Britannia Event, London, UK
10.11.2013
"Biological Design & Living Technology"
‘Wearable Futures Conference’, Ravensbourne University, London, UK
01.11.2013
Synthetic Biology Evening Talks
Royal College of Art, London, UK
01.05.2013
"Colloquium: Cutting: On the Fabric of the Human Body"
Kingston University, London, UK
26.05.2011
"Design Explorations"
Sackler Centre, V&A Museum, London, UK
12.07.2010
Service meets social: Designing Services with Social Networking Technologies
Microsoft Design Expo, (award winning project 'Data Hungry Skin' presented), Seattle, USA
WORKSHOPS
'Grow Your Own World'
Commissioned workshop for AHA Festival, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
'How to… Redesign the body with biotechnology'
WIRED Next Generation 2014, London
'Crafting the Body'
1 day workshop, Birmingham City University
'DeCellular'
Run at the following institutions: The University of Westminster, Protein Gallery London, and GV Art Gallery
Guest Lectures
Visiting lecturer at the following universities:
- Royal Collage of Art, London, UK
- Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
- The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Curtin University, Perth, Australia
- Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
- University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
- Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
- Kingston University, London, UK
- Kings College London, London, UK
- Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts, London, UK
- Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK
Selected Press, Publications & Features
BOOKS:
- 'Designing with Smart Textiles', by Sarah Kettley, Fairchild Books, 2016
- 'Material Alchemy: Redefining Materiality Within The 21st Century', by Studio Aikieu, Bis Publishers, 2015
- 'Bio Design: Nature Science Creativity', by William Myers, Thames & Hudson, 2012
Upcoming:
- 'States of Design', by Paola Antonelli, Thames & Hudson, Date TBC
PRINT MAGAZINES:
- 'A Common Thread' (Interview), The Biochemist, August 2016
- Crafts Magazine ISSUE NO. 261, July/ August 2016
- 'Science Fashion', #ICH Magazine, February 2016
- 'Now and Next', Tomorrow Magazine Issue 1, September 2015
- 'Fashion Future', WELT AM SONNTAG, July 2015
- 'Making Materials Count', Materials World Magazine, Feb 2015
- 'When Science and Design Collides', Blueprint Magazine, Jan 2015
- 'Biological Couture', The Sci-Fi Issue, SCENARIO Magazine, 2014
- Futu Paper, Newpaper, March 2014
- 'Animal Charms', WIRED Magazine, Oct 2014
- 'Gem Visions 2016', Swarovski Trend Publication
- 'The Language of Design', Viewpoint Magazine
- 'Material Futures 01', TFRC Publication, 2012
ONLINE PRESS:
- Motherboard/ VICE
- Disegno
- Dezeen
- Design Indaba
- Vogue
- US News
- Huffington Post
- WGSN
- Stylus
- LSN Global
- CLOT Magazine
- Ecouterre
- Philippa Wagner
- Future Filter
- Quote the Future
OTHER:
- 'Biomimetics: Designed by Nature', BBC Documentary, 2015
- 'Amy Congdon's couture fashion integrates textile design and tissue engineering', Dezeen Mini Frontiers Interview Series
- RTE News, Interview, 2015
- 'The Panel: Design That Grows', By Design Programme, ABC Radio, Australia, 2012
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RT @CraftsCouncilUK: “I started from a textile background... Then a tutor showed me how all the #craft skills I’d been learning could be… https://t.co/kDcaeEvzEu
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RT @ClotMagazine: This week there’s a new exciting exhibition opening at @centrepompidou https://t.co/FZyZKgUJ3D #biomedia #science… https://t.co/Pz8VSBepBq