Our sukumo indigo vat, kept alive by members since Lau Kaker's 2024 residency, is ready to transition. The sukumo vat can no longer dye, but its nitrogen-rich environment is ready to feed the earth. Celebrate with us and Lau as the vat returns to the earth.

Intra-action and more-than human perspectives suggest that entities are constituted by their relationships and entanglements "acting-with" other entities. This talk will discuss personal research on applying natural dye processes and material impermanence to fine art and social practice, exploring how technology can be used to physicalize and emphasize temporal entanglements. This work focuses on both the chemical processes that indicate these relationships and fragments of cultural knowledge that are imbedded in material and technology.

Ananda's philosophy of bio-art and design is shaped by the idea of "near-future heirlooms". In this talk, Ananda will go over some of her latest explorations and hybrid fabrication methodologies through her lens of combining ancestral knowledge, contemporary technique, and slow making.

How to Grow (Almost) Anything - or HTGAA - is a long-running introduction course about Synthetic Biology, taught by the experts in the field. The course was initiated and is organized by David Kong from the MIT Community Biotechnology Initiative (CBI) and is run both at MIT and globally through an expanding network of global HTGAA nodes. BioClub Tokyo is proud to be a node again in 2026. If you are curious about Synthetic Biology and are willing to study hard, please come and join us! The course if free!

This event is part of our biotope observation activities in Shibuya. We have 4 biotopes which we have been taking care of since summer 2023. By enjoying observing the tiny creatures and having a dialogue session in collaboration with BioClub, we hope to give people a better understanding of the many living things we share our city with, and create an opportunity to think about how we can help make our society more sustainable for both people and nature.

Distill the Lost Fragrance of Earth (Terra) ~ A Laboratory Journey in 2225 Through “Memory and Mind Mechanisms” and “Science Fiction” ~ A 2.5-hour immersive experience redefining the world's “value” through your sense of smell and imagination.

Among the myriad sci-fi worlds out there, solarpunk and light-hearted, fluffy biopunk seem to have a rather thin following...? Let's all collaborate to create setting materials, refine them to a level usable by creators, and pioneer a new genre!

忘年会 means literally 'forget-the-year party', but we will use our last weekly meeting of 2025 as a chance to remember and celebrate what happened in and around BioClub in 2025. Join us for a little party, feel free to bring snacks - and drinks!

I will discuss my current artistic practice working with seaweed-based bioplastics, exploring how this sustainable material shapes my creative process and conceptual focus. Additionally, I will share my goals, intentions, and planned research for my upcoming residency at BioClub Tokyo.

The mysterious “super mystery meat” or “myaku myaku” – that sci-fi dream featured in Doraemon – has now made its way into the news as the real thing: cultured meat. In twenty years' time, or when ordinary people start travelling to space, food production in space will become absolutely essential. Come and join our workshop and find out how to feed cultured meat with energy drinks!