digital fabrication, biofabrication and DIY Biology. -To make dimistify biotechnology by making it more accessible while at the same time cultivating and crafting technologies and materials that require care, time, patience and nurturing. -To create autonomous ways of self and collective health/care through care cultivating and amplifying practices such as cultivating and crafting materials, biochrome techniques and digitally fabricating hardware and bodily devices or interfac-
PRINCIPLES AND MANIFESTO OF THE OPEN SOURCE BODY PROJECT
es that are costumisable and most importantly, open source. Sharing is caring! -To influence and challenge current and future developments of technologies of self health/care. -To empower ourselves and marginalised communities through crafting, cultivating and digitally fabricating care as a way to become more active participants in our own health and create our own biotechnologies of life. -To shift the attention away from using medical/health technologies and knowledge to fix our broken bodies hence, technosolutionism, and to create novel forms and strategies in the production and dissemination of alternative modes of scientific and socio-biotechnological knowledge.
I. To embrace biological and biofabricated material/matter, the biological self and interspecies collaborations. II. To become an active participant in our own health /care and reclaim our biological agency and citizen science practices. III. To craft, cultivate, fabricate and design: -our own biotechnologies to explore the human body. -processes of care for the self and more-than human species through the process of biodesign, biofabrication, DIY biology and digital fabrication. IV. To Know thyself. V. To create strategies [tools, instruments for self exploration, biolab equipment, crafted and cultivated materials and educational resources] for radical health/care. VI. To produce, develop, disseminate and exchange DIY Biology knowledge a well as alternative modes of knowledge, care, and biological know-how through open recipes,
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open manuals, open protocols and open source hardware.
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