David Sun Kong, Ph.D.
Director, Community Biotechnology Initiative
MIT Media Lab
Founder & Board President
EMW Community Space
@davidsunkong
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“Innovation should serve local, social needs”
-Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
October 26-28, 2018
200+ participants from community labs around the world
Hello World
Diversity & Inclusion
22 Hands-on Activities & Demos
32
99 BioSummit
HTGAA
How To Grow
(Almost) Anything
1,000+ Fab Labs worldwide
Kong DS, Thorsen TA, Wick S, Gam J, Babb J, Weiss R, Carr PA, Nature Biotech 35, 523–529 (2017)
www.metafluidics.org
MIT - Community Biotechnology Initiative

MIT - Community Biotechnology Initiative

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