Ecodesign Conference 2026
2025 - 2026
IASDR 2025
2025
2025
2024
Research Publications
De Lara, C., Burkhardt, L., & Mizuno, D. (2026). Transient Entanglements: Comparative characterisation of knitted and woven textile scaffolds for BC composites with subsequent speculative functionalisation as transient installations. EcoDesign accelerating social transformation: Volume I (Chapter 33). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-9272-2
De Lara, C., & Mizuno, D. (2025). Bacto-Collaborative Design: Growth Phases of Bacterial Cellulose as Framework for Fashion Design Applications. IASDR 2025: Design Next (eds. Chang, C.-Y., Chen, C.-H., & Hsu, Y.), 02–05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.106
De Lara, C., & Mizuno, D. (2025). Grow Me a Wardrobe: How three-dimensional Biofabrication strategies for Bacterial Cellulose can reframe fashion practices through making and interacting with non-archetypal Bacterial Cellulose-based wearable objects. Fashion Highlight, (SI1), 246–256. https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3039
de Lara, C. (2024) Bacterial Brickbats: Material-driven explorations of bacterial cellulose-knit textile composites challenging agential anthropocentrism within design. [Master's thesis] The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.
De Lara, C. (2024). Fermenting Knits: A Material-Driven Exploration of Knit-Based Bacterial Cellulose Biocomposite Textile Materials through Fibre Reassembly. Research Directions: Biotechnology Design, 2, e3. https://doi.org/10.1017/btd.2024.3
Books and Chapters
De Lara, C. & Van Gerven, E. (2025). THE OTHER: Future Body Perspectives on Design Methods. In Driving Design Vol. 3: Reimagining, Reconfiguring, Redistributing Design. Distributed Design Platform.
Other Scholarly Output
De Lara, C. (2023). Biomaterial Artistry: Investigating the aesthetic expressions of voluminous form-giving applied to knit-bacterial cellulose composite textiles. Cambridge Open Engage [Preprint].
De Lara, C. (2023). Kintsugi; Exploring the Form-Giving Potential of Knit-Bacterial Cellulose Biocomposites in the Context of Footwear. Cambridge Open Engage [Preprint].
Media
Tocco Earth Report: Bacterial Cellulose 2025
The Hechyeomoyeo Magazine 2025
Design Boom 2024
LS:N Global 2024
HUBE Magazine 2024