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Crafting, cultivating and fabricating health/care
-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.
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-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 interfaces 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.
PRINCIPLES AND MANIFESTO OF THE OPEN SOURCE BODY PROJECT
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, open manuals, open protocols and open source hardware.
