Biodesign Symposium 2025

The Biodesign Symposium: How to Grow a Biodesigner is an annual, conference-style event where educators, researchers, and practitioners of Biodesign will discuss how they've worked across art, design, and biotechnology. Presenters at the Symposium share ways of formalizing Biodesign education and aligning Biodesign learning outcomes with workplace needs. 

NOTE: If you have a 2-day pass to the BDC Summit, you will receive free access to the Biodesign Symposium.

Schedule:

9:30am: Registration Opens

10:00am: Opening Address + Introduction to the Symposium

10:15am: Morning Keynote

10:45am: Presentations - Imagining and Adapting Infrastructures for Biodesign Learning

11:55am: Presentations - Integrating Biological Concepts into Traditional Design Curricula

1:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm: 10 Years of Biodesign Instruction: Panel Discussion on the Evolution of Biodesign Education

2:30pm: Presentations - Criteria and Methods for the Evaluation of Biodesign Projects

3:40pm: Presentations - Biodesign as Communicative Strategy

4:40pm: Afternoon Speaker

5:00pm: Closing Address