Credit: Karen Hogan, Michael Hogan, Orkan Telhan
Karen Hogan (US), Mike Hogan (US), Orkan Telhan (US)
The Microbial Design Studio (MDS) was designed by researchers from the Design Class and the Biology Institute of the University of Pennsylvania with experts from industry. It is intended to allow laypeople to inform themselves about genetically modified organisms and the practices of transgenic design.
The MDS was used, for example, to create the 30-day Simit Diet: different strands of wild yeast from people from various parts of Istanbul are combined with transgenic organisms that can produce vitamins, flavors and smells, and the mixed into the dough of the traditional Turkish simit pastries. This way a completely new simit with different characteristics was made every day.
The MDS is intended not only to present a new, progressive technology, but also to raise the question of how we want to design ourselves, our lives and life around us.
