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Hi to all, I am trying to understand how designers, using biological knowledge, could break down traditional boundaries that limits their creative output to the sphere of the not living structures, objects, etc. and expand their creative production to the realm of organic living structures. With this in mind, I am looking for existing (or possible) models of collaboration and interaction between Designers and Biologists, that permit designers to access knowledge on natural/biological processes and systems that underpin their design outputs in one hand, and that allow the integration of biology scientific research and design creative thinking in the other. I also want to explore some of the ethical, cultural, philosophical and ideological issues that may arise from designers creating/ manipulating/transforming living structures with a functional purpose. I have found an extensive bibliography that talks about Art and Biology interaction and about a number of research projects that team up Artists and scientists, but little about product design and Biology. Does anyone out there have any good reading recommendation, or reliable source on this subject? Thanks, Carlos Peralta