文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Becoming a designer-scientist: A designer's journey into laboratory practice and material characterization as creative tools for biodesign with bacterial cellulose

作者：Quijano, Luis[1,2,3];Jing, Ziyuan[4];Ferrero-Regis, Tiziana[2];Navone, Laura[1,3];Golberg, Dmitri[1];Zhang, Wenqing[4]

机构：[1]Queensland Univ Technol, Fac Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4000, Australia;[2]Queensland Univ Technol, Fac Creat Ind Educ & Social Justice, Kelvin Grove, Qld 4059, Australia;[3]Queensland Univ Technol, ARC Ctr Excellence Synthet Biol, Brisbane, Qld 4000, Australia;[4]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Chem & Mol Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2026

卷号：60

外文期刊名：THINKING SKILLS AND CREATIVITY

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:001663188100001)】；

基金： The primary author wishes to thank the Fulbright Future Scholarship, Australian Government Research Training (RTP) Scholarship, and East China University of Science and Technology's Advanced Innovative Talents Frontier Technology Workshop as well as Young Excellent Scholar (YES) program.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Bacterial cellulose; Biodesign; Biotechnology; Fashion design; Laboratory practice; Textiles

摘要：With the integration of biotechnology into design practices (biodesign), designers are learning to navigate between the interfaces of design and science. However, for designers, the laboratory often remains an unfamiliar environment: structured, procedural, and often perceived as incompatible with creative practice. This study attempts to demystify laboratory practice and explores how laboratory practice can function as a creative methodology for designers through the reflection of the primary author's journey from designer to designer-scientist with an autoethnographic exploration of bacterial cellulose. Conducted within a chemistry laboratory, this study investigates how scientific protocols, tools, and material characterization techniques can inform design decisions and expand material design for designers. The findings show that engaging with laboratory methodologies allow designers to think through materials by observing transformation at both aesthetic and molecular levels, linking empirical data to creative decisionmaking. Reflecting on moments of uncertainty, adaption and learning, this study illustrates how laboratory practice reshapes the designer's practice and identity, fostering confidence and fluency across disciplinary boundaries. Ultimately, this study argues that the act of "becoming a designerscientist" reframes biodesign as both an empirical and reflective practice, while opening new pathways for sustainable and transdisciplinary futures.