Linda Nurk and Natsai Audrey Chieza discuss their experiences of collaborating with living organisms in the design and making process

25 April 2022

"Co-Culturing: Crafting the Living" – a recorded conversation about the role of designers within the bio-tech industry; notions of scale and mass-production as well as the role craft can play in proposing a different version of scale-up.

Dancer in the water: Anna Pehrsson, Photo: Sara Mac Key


The recorded conversation is featured in the online magazine The Vessel issue 2: Re-Acting Fibres.


Linda Nurk is a student at the master's programme CRAFT! Textile, year 1.

Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer and the founder of Faber Futures, that creates biologically inspired materials.