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What if street lights were living things?
Street lighting has become a living thing. In some areas, bioluminescent bacteria are embedded into tree species, creating night light that lives. In others, building balconies, overpasses and facades are injected with programmed bacteria-based materials that make them glow in the dark...
Research informing this future
This future is a replay of Studio Roosegaarde’s Glowing Nature project, which synthesized bioluminescent bacteria into a living three. This research has been pursued in academic contexts as well, with research teams isolating molecular mechanisms for bioluminescence and exploring ways to engineer those capacities in building materials.
Additional information and relevant projects
Morgan Ruben’s mycelium powered lamps
Ongoing research on bioluminescent fungi and their applications
Overviews of how research into glowing fungi could end up making trees that light city streets
Understanding and using fungal bioluminescence
What if you had these in your neighborhood? Would you want them? Would you not? Why?
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