SUMMIT 2020

Final Day, Awards + Speakers (June 19, 2021)

BDC Summit 2020 was broadcast online for an entire week from June 15th - 19th. It featured student videos, live Q & A's with judges, speakers, and more.

WELCOME LETTER FROM BDC’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

VIEW THE BDC SUMMIT 2020 MIRO BOARD

Day 1 (June 15, 2021)

Day 2 (June 16, 2021)

Day 3 (June 17, 2021)

Overall Winner Zebra glass

College for Creative Studies: Marziehsadat Banadaki, Wei Huang, Emily Marquette

Outstanding Presentation Culina

Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment: Adrienne Dy, Dawoon Jeong, Emma Riley, Pippa Mcleod-Brown

Outstanding Field Research lifebrik

University of Cincinnati: Cecelia Favorito, Maneesh Chidambram, Samuel Paul

Community Choice Malgae

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey: Gonzalo Irving Barrera Hernández, Dona Belen Ayala Larrea, Juan Pablo Reyes Valdez, María Soledad Chancay Atiaga

Science Sandbox for Public Engagement MICROBIAL MEMORIES

New York University, IDM: Sara Nejad, Nikhil Kumar

Runner Up ALGAE FILTERS FOR REUSABLE MASKS

California College of the Arts: Camila Wandemberg

Outstanding Science bioblack

Kent State University: Janda van Dyk, Jordan Smith, Kirsten Thieman, Lizeth Ramirez

Judges’ Recognition TÔMTEX BIOMATERIAL

Parsons School of Design: Uyen Tran

Outstanding Instructor Dr. Ollie Cotsaftis

RMIT University

MANA Prize for the Future of Beauty LINNEO NOURISHING BEAUTY

Universidad de los Andes: Karen Nathaly Blanco, Ana María Rodríguez, Laura Espitia, Camila Correa, Laura Méndez, Sara Garcia

Summit Speakers

keynote by david benjamin

Friday, June 19, 12:30pm ET

David Benjamin is Founding Principal of The Living, Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP, and directs the GSAPP Incubator. David Benjamin’s work combines research and practice, and it involves exploring new ideas through prototyping. Focusing on the intersection of biology, computation, and design, Benjamin has articulated three frameworks for harnessing living organisms for architecture: bio-processing, bio-sensing, and bio-manufacturing.

The Living has won many design prizes, including the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League, the New Practices Award from the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the Young Architects Program Award from MoMA and MoMA PS1, and a Holcim Sustainability Award.

annalee newitz

In conversation with Torie Bosch

Friday, June 19, 1:00pm et

Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the novels The Future of Another Timeline and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. Their forthcoming nonfiction book about archaeology, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age arrives February 2021 from W.W. Norton.

They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.

Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a project of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that looks at the implications of new technologies.