Biodesign Challenge Summit 2020

Join us online for the culmination of Biodesign Challenge 2020, an international competition where high school and university students partner with artists, designers, and scientists to create projects that envision and critique the future of biotechnology.

Forty-five finalist teams will showcase their projects before an esteemed panel of judges from academia, the arts, and industry, and audiences from around the world. One team will be awarded the Glass Microbe, a unique glass trophy that is passed between each year’s winning teams.

Finalist teams were chosen from over 500 students from 12 countries across 6 continents who worked throughout the academic year to develop their ideas.

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SPEAKERS

Keynote | June 19, 12:30pm

David Benjamin

Founding Principal of The Living and Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP

In Conversation | June 19, 1:00pm

Annalee Newitz

Award-winning science fiction author and science journalist, in conversation with Torie Bosch (Editor, Future Tense)

SUMMIT AGENDA

Day 1: Monday, June 15th | 1:00pm - 5:45pm ET

Regions presenting: South/Central America, Australia, US/Canada

Day 2: Tuesday, June 16th | 9:00am - 3:30pm ET

Regions presenting: Europe, Africa, US/Canada

Day 3: Wednesday, June 17th | 8:00am - 12:45pm ET

Regions presenting: Japan, South/Central America, US/Canada

Friday, June 19th | 11:00am - 3:00pm ET

Speakers and Awards Ceremony

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS

Aalto University

Atlanta International School

California College of the Arts, Design

California State University, Los Angeles

Carnegie Mellon University

College for Creative Studies

Estonian Academy of Arts

Fashion Institute of Technology

Grace Church School

Greenside Design Center

The Hewitt School

Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (Newcastle University and Northumbria University)

Illinois State University

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Jacksonville State University

Keio University

Kent State University

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Nest Makerspace

New Design High School

New York City College of Technology

New York University, IDM

New York University, ITP

NuVu Innovation Studio

Parsons School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design

RMIT University

Rutgers University

SeaShift Collaborative (CCA, UCDavis, UCSF)

Universidad de los Andes

Universidad del Istmo

University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken

University of British Columbia

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of Cincinnati

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Michigan

University of New Mexico

University of Southern California

University of Sydney

University of Technology Sydney

University of Toledo

University of Wisconsin, Stout

BDC 2020 JUDGES

Jasmina Aganovic, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Ginkgo Bioworks

Christina Agapakis, Creative Director, Ginkgo Bioworks

Nathan Allen, Head of Special Projects, Google

Dan Ardia, Professor of Biology, Franklin & Marshall College

Leslie Atzmon, Professor of Graphic Design + Design History, Eastern Michigan University

Torie Bosch, Future Tense Editor, Slate

Carrie Cizauskas, Artist + Scientist

Victoria Colangelo, Founder, NXTbeauty

Alison Cutlan, Founder, Cutlan Lab and Studio

Heather Davis, Writer, Editor, + Researcher

Kim de Mora, Founder + CEO, SVN Med

Alison Dell, Assistant Professor of Biology, St. Francis College

Nancy Diniz, Course Leader of Masters in Biodesign, Central Saint Martins; Partner, Augmented Architectures, bioMATTERS

Stephen Donofrio, Principal + Founder, Greenpoint Innovations

Ben Doranz, President + CEO, Integral Molecular

Sam Weiss Evans, Researcher, Harvard University, MIT

Laura Forlano, Associate Professor of Design, The Illinois Institute of Technology

Doug Goodwin, Fletcher Jones Foundation Scholar in Computation, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Scripps College

Christine Goulay, Head of Sustainable Innovation, Kering

Fred Gould, Co-director, Genetic Engineering and Society Center, NC State

Hank Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Professor of Genetics, Stanford University

Gigi Gronvall, Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Christi Guerrini, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

Keira Havens, Manager of Sustainability + Public Affairs, Pivot Bio

Denise Hoffman Brandt, Director + Associate Professor, Graduate Landscape Architecture Program, CCNY; Founder, Hoffman Brandt Projects

Karen Hogan, CEO + Cofounder, Biorealize, Inc.

Ryan Hoover, Artist, Researcher, + Professor of Digital and Biological Fabrication, Maryland Institute College of Art

Kirsten Horning, Principal, XRC Labs

Nancy J Kelley, President + CEO, Nancy J Kelley + Associates

Minji Kim, Fiber and Polymer Scientist, AlgiKnit

Todd Kuiken, Senior Research Scholar, North Carolina State University

Jim Lane, Editor + Publisher, Biofuels Digest

Magnolia Laurie, Department of Art + Art History, Franklin & Marshall College

Andrea Lipps, Associate Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper Hewitt Museum

Ani Liu, Arts Fellow + Lecturer, Princeton University

Margaret MacDonald, Research chemist, US Army Futures Command; part-time faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art

Melissa Marra-Alvarez, Curator of Education and Research, The Museum at FIT

Angela McQuillan, Curator, Esther Klein Gallery

Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Leslie Mitchell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jef Boeke Lab at NYU Langone

William Myers, Curator, Teacher, + Author of Biodesign

Naomi Nakayama, Research Fellow, Royal Society University

Ann Neumann, Director of Galleries, MIT Museum

Hemai Parthasarathy, CSO + Partner, Breakout Ventures

Jeanne Pfordresher, Adjunct Associate, Pratt Institute Industrial Design; Partner, Hybrid Product Design

Mirelle Phillips, Founder, Studio Elsewhere

Sukanya Punthambaker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Alexandra Ralevski Science Director, The Biomimicry Institute

Simone Ross, Cofounder, Techonomy; Curator, TED

Andrew Scarpelli, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Jason Schupbach, Director, The Design School, Arizona State University

Laura Splan, Artist

Orkan Telhan, Cofounder + Chief Design Officer, Biorealize, Inc.; Associate Professor of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania

Danielle Trofe, Founder, Danielle Trofe Design

Harris Wang, Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Columbia University

Elizabeth Wissinger, Professor of Sociology, CUNY

Jiwon Woo, CEO + Creative Director, hypha design.

Elaine Young, Founder, LAByrinth