AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
biofabrication, textiles, sustainable fashion
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Gingko x Faber Futures Residency
WEBSITE
https://www.faberfutures.com/projects/project-coelicolor/scale-void-print/
Project Coelicolor
World’s first garment designed to be pigmented by S.coelicolor
Natsai Audrey Chieza is a materials designer and the founder of Faber Futures. She envisions how designing with living systems and emerging biotechnologies can be an answer to contemporary challenges of resource scarcity, climate change, and sustainability. Chieza is a pioneer in biopigments for textiles: she dyes textiles with Streptomyces bacteria. Chieza has designed and built custom tools to create graphic textile prints, and produced the first bacteria-pigmented garment Assemblage 001. The development of Assemblage 001 has marked a step towards a fully customisable dyeing process, and a milestone in the creation of in a new resource-efficient biofabrication method for making, colouring and patterning complex textile products.