Description
- To respond to this Call for Papers and apply for the 2nd annual Biodesign Symposium, please send abstracts of no more than 250 to 350 words to info@biodesignchallenge.org. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and letters of support can be written for accepted applicants seeking supplemental funding from their institutions. Deadline for submission is May 10. All other inquiries related to Cambridge University Press, Biotechnology Design, and the peer-review process should be directed to Monica Moniz at CUP at monica.moniz@cambridge.org.
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For 2025, the Biodesign Symposium aims to build on the insights of the previous conference and highlight those research papers, instructional paradigms, and activities that advance biodesign as a constructive method between biotechnology, the arts and design.
In doing so, the conference will retain its guiding question “How to Grow a Biodesigner?” but shift focus away from investigations into the current state of the discipline and toward proven educational strategies for developing professional biodesigners. These strategies will reflect biodesign’s intrinsic interdisciplinarity, forwarding tested approaches to integrative research and pedagogy through the field’s constituent disciplines. As such, the conference committee encourages submissions that have resulted in real-world interventions, materials, or speculative designs that advance biodesign as a whole. Preference for inclusion in the Biodesign Symposium will be given to abstracts and submissions that are aligned with the following themes:
- Evaluative criteria for assessing the merits of biodesign projects produced in a classroom setting.
- Classroom biodesign projects co-designed with local communities to support critical infrastructure or wellbeing.
- Methodological differences between the life sciences and design disciplines with an emphasis on cultivating skill transfer and innovation.
- Designing biodesign syllabi around regional challenges and natural resources.
- Developing institutional spaces for biodesign instruction in colleges, universities and secondary schools.
- Techniques for introducing ethical concepts in life sciences coursework through in-class biodesign modules or projects.
- Biodesign as a communicative strategy between scientific stakeholders and the general public.
- Biodesign projects and perspectives that achieve learning goals through nonstandard educational vehicles (video games, etc.) and expand access to the field.
Biodesign Challenge and
Biotechnology Design
(Cambridge University Press) invite abstracts for both the Biodesign Symposium conference and consideration for peer-review publication. In submitting an abstract, we request that you indicate the intended audience for your proposal: for instance, submission for the Biodesign Symposium conference, for peer-review publication at
Biotechnology Design
, or for both. Authors submitting abstracts intended only for the Biodesign Symposium are not obligated to publish their research in
Biotechnology Design
and will strictly be evaluated according to the needs of the conference.