Labitat
A creative independent maker and citizen science community
Introduction & Project portfolio. v.1.0 2014-01-18
...Presentation Outline
Current projects
Project Portfolio
Media & appearances
Values & Introduction
Learn and do science in the same way you learn and play football? - in social, PASSION DRIVEN clubs- OPEN to everyone, regardless of your occupation: industry employee, businessman, politician, bureaucrat, researcher or craftsman
What if you could...
The strong association and cooperative-society oriented culture in Denmark can be a framework for high-tech creative &
What if ...
&
Collaborative Open Innovation?
How ?
WTF is
Biohacking
Those who do, decide!
If it takes less than 2 minutes, do it NOW.
No objections within 48 hours, do it!
DO’ocracy *
*
What are
Hacking &
Biohacking ?
3500 people on
500
800 + 100
Global Hacker Community
DIYbio.org maillist
DIYbio.eu
Labitat + Biologigaragen
Draft DIYbio Code of Ethics from European Congress
Transparency�Emphasize transparency and the sharing of ideas, knowledge, data and results.
Safety�Adopt safe practices.
Open Access�Promote citizen science and decentralized access to biotechnology.
Education�Help educate the public about biotechnology, its benefits and implications.
Modesty�Know you don’t know everything.
Community�Carefully listen to any concerns and questions and respond honestly.
Peaceful Purposes�Biotechnology must only be used for peaceful purposes.
Respect�Respect humans and all living systems.
Responsibility�Recognize the complexity and dynamics of living systems and our responsibility towards them.
Accountability�Remain accountable for your actions and for upholding this code.
Open source hardware
11x11x11 LEDcube by SignOUT
Low cost 3D printers designed and built
by Martin Axelsen
for Roskilde Festival Makerspace 2013
Open Source 3D Printing
Reverse engineering sextoys
DARE
TO
ENGAGE !
Current Projects
@Biologigaragen
#Folkeforskning
#DIYbio
#OpenAccess
#OpenScience
Get your hands on science once a month
Group Experiment Nights
Open Access Microbes
Kulturkollektionen
Get your hands on “Science”, once a month
Group Experiment Nights
Powered by Biologigaragen
DIY PCR Machine for Multiplying DNA
OpenPCR only $600
Commercial PCR ~ $6000
Beassy
Open source tools for citizen science in biology
DIY PCR Machine for Multiplying DNA
OpenPCR only $600
Commercial PCR ~ $6000
Find Horse in your lasagne
Shark in your sushi
Who’s your daddy ?!
Join our lab and use it to..
Project Portfolio
Biostrike !
A diybio/citizen science experimental competition to find new antibiotics
http://is.gd/Biostrike
http://is.gd/Biostrike
Indoor cultivation knowledge sharing
Indoor Farming Society
Exhibition at the Medical Museion of Copenhagen
A collaboration between M. M. Borch, Rüdiger Trojok & Medical Museion
BioHacking: Do-It-Yourself
DIY Gene Gun
By Rüdiger Trojok, Photo MMBorch
Ethics - “Learning by Hacking”
Indoor cultivation knowledge sharing
Indoor Farming Society
"TEACHES KIDS TO BE PSYCHOPATHS".
Queen's University philosophy Professor Michael Allen warned that the device will: "encourage amateurs to operate invasively on living organisms" and "encourage thinking of complex living organisms as mere machines or tools".
--against
… email complaints said that Roboroach
..."The backpack allows students to do graduate level research early in life".
++Backyardbrains:
... Had been developed solely to encourage children to take an interest in neuroscience" … "At the moment this crucially important subject is woefully under-taught."
No chain of command, no excuse: only YOUR Decision
Now what...
?
?
?
?
Negotiations and reflections
Should we continue this and under what conditions...?
A: “Should we grow our own GMO pets?”
@ our “general discuss mail-list”
“It’s Fake! Don’t waste our time with fake links.”
B:
“It’s Fake! Don’t waste our time with fake links.”
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we really could do it?
Isn’t this what Labitat is about ?
:C
B:
There is a difference between the “knowledge to” and actually DO’ing”.
- “We could 3D-print guns but this doesn’t mean that we should use our 3D printers for that.”
.D
"I think we should
"I think we should
be able to, but not necessarily DO.
Conclusions
Reflections
Values
@Biologigaragen
#Folkeforskning
#CitizenScience
#DIYbio
#OpenAccess
#OpenScience
Biology and Citizen Science
Thursdays @ 18:00
Electronics & Software
Tuesday evenings
@ Labitat.dk, H.C. Ørestedsvej 5, CPH
ERA synbio presentation 27 Nov. 2013
Martin Malthe Borch, Biologigaragen.org, Labitat.dk
Ethics - “Learning by Hacking”
Thank you
Is an FBI agent a DIYbiologist as any other
Analyse the FBI-outreach program - and the reactions in the diybio environment - and place it in context of STS.
What happened since 2012?
Did it change practice? . do we practically talk about it in the lab?!? NO!
Dit it help in terms of framing the issue with media?
Ender i udredning af den sociale dynamic (Andet tema)
Hvad betyder det for udviklingen af teknologi i Biohackerspaces ifht. Syntese biologi?
Konklusioner:
Disposition:
OS:
Cockroach ethics: nature / pain http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24455141
Synthetic Biology:
Biostrike - vs medical business
This is what we do and think:
GMO animals
FBI...NSA