One of our sons starts a bachelor of product design at the Otago Polytechnic next year — the world of any sort of design is outside of our rather narrow science sphere. My paradigm was one of knowledge and discovery, not creativity or exploration for the sake of it. The co-founder of Mycoworks, Phil Ross, is an artist and a pioneer in cultivating living materials for art and design. What a wonderful story of innovation, brought about by a combination of art, product design, science, engineering, entrepreneurship and business. An artist might view the commercialisation as a sellout and perhaps in a certain paradigm, that is true too.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 24, 2020 15:33 UTC