The Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio art and design, and produce new multidisciplinary work. This can encompass numerous fields - from sustainability, food and health, to biotechnology, horticulture, and agriculture, from new materials to ethics and from molecules to the universe and every bio entity in-between, natural and synthetic.
To our regret the BAD Award 2025 is put on hold and the competition is discontinued for this year. To ensure its successful survival, we are forced to recalibrate the far-reaching collaboration-based set up, organisation and funding that carries the BAD Award. The BAD network is cracking and in its current form is proving insufficiently resilient to outside influences.
Still, we believe strongly in the equal explorations of art, design and science. We see the strength of the many dozens of talented international creators who have been able to use the BAD Award as a springboard for their work over the past 15 years.
At a time when everything is changing, and both art and science are under enormous pressure, it is also good to re-examine tried-and-tested practices and allow them to evolve.
The aim is to take a year for redesigning and rebuilding the BAD Award's valuable foundation for international art-science collaborations in a sustainable and future-proof way. For this, good partners and sufficient means are indispensable. Next year, we will therefore actively look for partners, parties and funds willing to join MU Hybrid Art House in this effort.