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MSE Seminar: “DumoLab Research: Regenerative Architecture with Biomaterials” Weitzman School of Design – University of Pennsylvania
September 21, 2023 at 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Dr. Mogas-Soldevila will give an overview on her DumoLab research at the Weitzman School of Design at Penn. Her works focuses on regenerative material practices bridging science, engineering, and the arts. DumoLab builds scholarship for materials design critique, and translates biomedical materials used in implants, drug delivery, and tissue scaffolding, into robust materials for use in product and architectural design that nurture both humans and the planet. Interdisciplinary research areas push forward biomaterials science for non-medical applications, growth-like large-scale and ambient conditions manufacturing, and new testing protocols and aesthetics for bio-composites in consumer products and the built environment.
Laia Mogas Soldevila
Assistant Professor of Graduate Architecture and Director of DumoLab Research at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Laia Mogas-Soldevila is an Assistant Professor of Graduate Architecture and Director of DumoLab Research at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Laia’s research focuses on new sustainable material practices bridging science, engineering and the arts. Her broader pedagogy supports novel theory and applied methods understanding materials and materialization in architecture. She has built scholarship over the past ten years reconsidering matter as a fundamental design driver and partnering with scientists to redesign it towards unprecedented capabilities. Laia holds an interdisciplinary doctorate bridging materials science, biomedical engineering, and design from Tufts University School of Engineering, two master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a licensed architect with a minor in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia School of Architecture.