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Bio-Design For Living Futures was an international Symposium focused on Bio-Design organized within the framework of CoCoon, aligned with Barcelona Design Week 2025.

October 2025

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LEARN

HOW TO GROW A

SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

COCOON IS BUILDING MODULES AND TOOLKITS FOR PEOPLE TO SAFELY EXPERIMENT WITH BIO-DESIGN  

LEARN

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In the final Deliverable 3.4 of Work Package 3, BIOMODULES - cocoon biomaterials ready to use teaching and experimentation Modules - Designing the Green Transformation

March 2025

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In the final Deliverable 3.5 of Work Package 3, the complete evaluation Plan to run COCOON Biomodules in all different teaching and learning challenges
Lead authors: Américo Mateus & Susana Leonor

January 2025

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In the final Deliverable 3.3 of Work Package 3, To help improve and integrate the model for a Model Student Curriculum that meets the needs of the 21st century and mainly for future generations, we must outline some methods to enhance a proposal to approach the content we developed in the Cocoon project.
Lead authors: Susana Leonor & Jorge Lopes

January 2025

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In the final Deliverable 3.2 of Work Package 3, The training manual serves as a guide on how to implement the Biodesign Modules and provides additional insights that would be beneficial for trainers implementing courses focusing on biodesign. In addition, the training manual is set up for educators to train themselves, in order to be able to implement the modules.
Lead authors: Fiona Demeur & Chiara Farinea

January 2025

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In the final Deliverable 3.1 of Work Package 3, What does it mean to sow seeds of change, in a world facing pressing demands for sustainability? What does the action of planting seeds do, when the problems are so large and complex? Where do we even start? 
Lead authors: Ena Naito & Juhani Tenhunen

January 2025

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In the final Deliverable of Work Package 2, we lay out the policies, tools and methods institutions need to adapt to run an open access bioFABLAB

April 2024

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In this document, the CoCoon team maps out Bio-Design opportunities to transfer into education.

January 2024

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Explore Bio-Design Terms and Policies for Bio-Design. 
Lead authors: Carla Paolíello & Gabriel Patrocínio

July 2023

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Pirjo Kääriäinen Associate professor at Aalto University puts Bio-Design in context

September 2023

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Ministerial Adviser Petra Tarjanne describes policy making for creative economy in Finland

September 2023

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Carla Paoliello explores barriers and opportunities for mainstreaming bio-design education and practices

September 2023

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