Shared Delusions, Fragiled Futures

This essay reflects on biodesign as a practice shaped as much by failure and fragility as by innovation and promise. It writes from the in-between spaces of design—where care, contradiction, and shared delusions become generative forces. Rather than treating biodesign as a spectacle of glossy outcomes, the essay situates it as an unfinished and collective process, attentive to ethical responsibilities, entangled infrastructures, and more-than-human relations. In doing so, it contributes to ongoing conversations about how design might resist commodification and instead nurture plural, situated futures that remain open, messy, and alive.

keywords: biodesign

• year: August 2025 — ongoing