We work as a design duo exploring making-as-growth: how material behaviour and biological processes can be translated into design and fabrication. Our research draws from biodesign, algorithmic modelling and robotic making to build a continuous workflow—from field data / biological logics → parametric rules → material recipes → large-scale fabrication. Rather than using nature as an image, we treat it as a producer of rules that can be encoded and verified through making.

Bactereature grows colour instead of applying it. Ceramic-like biopolymers are cultivated in liquid media where microbial communities deposit bio-pigments that slowly stain and bind the surface. The objects are then stabilised, preserving gradients, blooms and edge effects as material records of time, care and metabolism. Colour becomes a structural property; emotion is carried by thickness, porosity and the pace of growth.

Across projects we focus on material evidence: measurable densities, layer transitions, curing windows and assembly strategies. The aim is to develop programmable, biodegradable and recyclable material systems that operate at an architectural scale, without abandoning the affective and cultural questions raised by living matter. By coupling Houdini/Grasshopper with fabrication-informed material science, we translate ecological principles—mutualism, cyclicity, gradient, feedback—into things that can be touched, sat on and critically discussed.

Ultimately, our practice argues that the future of making is not only faster or more precise, but more alive in principle: manufacturing that learns from growth, structures that record relationships, and materials that tell us where they came from and where they will go.