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MIT - Community Biotechnology Initiative
David Sun Kong is the Director of the Community Biotechnology Initiative at MIT Media Lab and founder and president of the EMW Community Space non-profit. EMW Community Space hosted the 99 BioSummit from October 26-28, 2018, which brought together over 200 participants from community labs around the world to participate in 22 hands-on activities and demonstrations on topics like diversity and inclusion. The summit also featured a workshop on growing various materials called "How To Grow (Almost) Anything".
MIT - Community Biotechnology Initiative
- 1. David Sun Kong,Ph.D. Director, Community Biotechnology Initiative MIT Media Lab Founder & Board President EMW Community Space @davidsunkong
- 7. art | technology| community
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- 23. “Innovation should servelocal, social needs” -Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
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- 26. 200+ participants fromcommunity labs around the world
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- 31. 22 Hands-on Activities& Demos
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- 34. HTGAA How To Grow (Almost)Anything
- 35. 1,000+ Fab Labsworldwide
- 37. Kong DS, ThorsenTA, Wick S, Gam J, Babb J, Weiss R, Carr PA, Nature Biotech 35, 523–529 (2017) www.metafluidics.org
Editor's Notes
- #2 Or will it be more democratized, more participatory? This is a snap I took from my community center @EMW. Super diverse community.
- #4 And now I’m very privileged to direct an amazing group @ the media lab Our message: to leverage the creative power of communities to drive innovation in biotechnology! BIOTECH INNOVATION AT THE EDGES!!!! Barriers to innovation are lower and lower…how will you take advantage of that opportunity?
- #8 ARTISTIC diversity, SOCIAL diversity, TECHNICAL diversity… It's about the synthesis of art, technology AND COMMUNITY together.
- #20 Bio-hacking in an art gallery!
- #24 At biofabbing convergence, met Thomas, Cameroon, “afro-biohacking tour”…context matters! Bio-hacking / synbio in cambridge is really different than at MIT. Cultural context is important.
- #26 And this, my home institution, MIT, where we work on research projects funded by federal agencies and also for-profit companies. and academic labs, like my home institution, MIT. And this, my home institution, MIT, where we work on research projects funded by federal agencies and also for-profit companies. If we’re interested in what’s “next,” who are the new communities we can engage, the new places we can go?
- #27 -Advertised w/one fb post, 300 participants? -this is a movement deeply connected with iGEM…
- #30 Amazing to see the global diversity of perspective, culture, socioeconomic status, etc.
- #31 Contextualize your work beyond just what’s in the lab, what you are pipetting **there are political, economic, social dimensions!!!
- #32 What is your story? How do you define ‘success’?
- #34 What is your story? How do you define ‘success’?
- #35 1st year, 28 sites around the world DNA nanostructures to biological production of compounds, new materials (silk), to engineering tissues and whole ecosystems Interested in HTGAA, please HOLLER!!!
- #36 ACCELERATE GROWTH OF COMMUNITY BIO MOVEMENT! Have fab labs make bio labs
- #37 Resource for sharing