Bio art & design

The Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) is a competition aimed at stimulating young artists and designers from The Netherlands and abroad to experiment with bioart and design and to collaborate with renowned Dutch science centres. The Awards of €25.000 each are assigned by an international jury to the most promising and original proposals in the competition. The projects are consequently realised within six months and exhibited at MU artspace in Eindhoven. This successful initiative has been a joint effort of ZonMw (Medical Research Council), NWO (Dutch Research Council), Waag Society, BioArt Laboratories and MU artspace. Each year approximately 50 artists and designers, from all over the world, enter the competition. The close collaboration between artists, designers and scientists did not only lead to new artistic explorations, but impacted the science as well. The collaboration between the artists, designers and scientists also stimulated the development of new tools, technologies and methods.