BioImagens

BioImagens was developed within ECOlabs with Emmanuel Dos Santos, in partnership with Casa da Imagem and the Fine Arts School of Porto University. The project explored how photographic development could become more ecological, more mobile and more public through a foldable transportable lab and non-toxic water-based processes.

BioImagens was developed within ECOlabs together with Emmanuel Dos Santos, in partnership with Casa da Imagem and the Fine Arts School of Porto University. The project explored how photographic development could become more ecological, more mobile and more public.

Instead of staying inside a university lab, BioImagens took image-making into public space through a transportable photo development setup. Using origami and kirigami principles, the lab was designed as a foldable structure that could be moved, opened and adapted in use.

The development process was split into separate stages and worked with non-toxic, water-based solutions. What mattered was not only the object itself, but the possibility it opened up: a lighter, more accessible and more sustainable way of working with analogue photography.

BioImagens brought together prototyping, ecological thinking and public access in one mobile system. It was both a tool and a proposition for how image development could be done otherwise.