Fifteen institutions so far, from a 3-hour undergraduate workshop to a full postgraduate module. The common thread: get people's hands on biology, or on a protein model, before they form an opinion about it.
I teach the question rather than the field. Whatever the format, students make something legible, weigh what it is worth believing, and confront who is excluded from reading it.
A Master's studio course. Students design, prototype and critique a system that stores, reads or verifies information in a biological medium, ending with a chain-of-custody artefact and a written evaluation.
A Bachelor's introduction to information carried by matter (DNA, microbial signatures, model predictions), taught through working instruments, for informatics students who will never enter a lab.
Six weeks, live, capped at 15, run through Biodesign Academy. Three teaching models I built for it: the Biodesign Layer Map, the Reasoning Loop, the Leverage Matrix.
Three days on what structure prediction does to design practice. Ran July 2025 with a fee-paying cohort from Stuttgart, Ghent, Amsterdam UAS, TU Delft and São Paulo.
Politecnico di Milano. Guest lecture, MSc Living Interaction Design. November 2026.
Feng Chia University, Taiwan. Two sessions on current trends in architecture. May 2026.
University of Hertfordshire. Designing with AI and Biology, workshop. January 2026.
Shih Chien University, Taipei. From Sequence to Substance, a 7-day intensive on AI in material futures. January 2026.
KAIST, Industrial Design. Invited lectures, Search the Future series. 2025.
TU Delft, 2022 to 2024. Co-developed and taught Fundamentals of Biodesign (ID5315) and Designing Living Artefacts (ID5316) across three MSc programmes.
Royal College of Art, 2021 to 2022. Innovation Design Engineering, and MA Fashion Bio-Platform.
Queen Mary University of London, 2021. Qualitative Research Methods and Thematic Coding, faculty-wide.
Royal College of Art, MA Design Interactions, 2013 to 2014. The first biohacking workshops for design students, run at London Biohackspace.
London College of Communication, 2013 to 2014. BA Interaction Design Arts.
Plus workshops at AKI Enschede, Ravensbourne, UCA, Norwich University of the Arts and HTW Dresden.
MSc supervision at TU Delft, 2022 to 2024.
Ten project groups across the Shih Chien intensive, with an assessment framework I wrote for it.
Judge, iGEM Grand Jamboree 2026, Paris.
Invited judge, Biodesign Challenge Ocean Futures sprint, 2025.
Arçelik, Istanbul, June 2023. A 1.5-day workshop for 14 to 16 staff, delivered through the Materials Experience Lab at TU Delft. I lectured on bio-digital hybrids, co-led the afternoon session, and wrote the programme revision, the card decks and the post-workshop report.
TU Eindhoven, 2025. The Living Foam workshop series with Bahareh Barati. Three sessions, June and September.
Space Doctors for Procter & Gamble, May 2022. A microbiome ideation and backcasting session, 16 participants, remote.
Dubai Future Academy, 2017. Invited speaker and workshop organiser on synthetic biology.
Beyond High Tech, Low Life: Imagining the Living City through Biodesign. Panel, Flanders Technology & Innovation festival, Wiels, Brussels. October 2026.
Accessible Molecular HCI. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. October 2025.
When AI Meets Biology: How Do We Design Responsibly? Next Nature Conference, Eindhoven. October 2025.
Opening keynote, day two. Renewable Futures, Eindhoven. 2017.
On Speculative Biodesign. BioFabbing Convergence, CERN. 2017.
Peck As You Go. FSCONS, Sweden. 2015.
Registered expert, European Commission Funding & Tenders database, since April 2026. Associate Chair, ACM DIS 2023. Special Topic Editor, Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021 to 2022. Reviewer for CHI, DIS, TEI, DRS, The Design Journal, the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Interacting with Computers and SoftwareX. Member, Working Group 3, COST Action CA24126 DESIGNAE, and co-lead of that group until February 2026.