Noémie Soula (born in 1995) is an emerging French artist-designer based in the UK. She graduated from MA Material Futures Central Saint Martins, UAL in 2018 and joined Lab4Living research group in 2019. Her work mainly investigates emerging biotechnologies, current research in biology and genetics, and the relationship between human, non-human, and their environment. Her practice is research-driven and interdisciplinary, interweaving life sciences, storytelling, and craft. She uses storytelling as a creative tool to extrapolate current scientific research and gather more insight through active exchange with scientists and experts. Soula gives tangibility to concepts with photography, video, and 3D artifacts. The artifacts become a space for conversation where the public can imagine and debate bioethical questions. Playing with the visceral and the liminality between reality and fiction, the created artworks, physical or digital, act as a wake-up call, an uncanny event for the audience to stimulate their imagination.
Da Vinci Labs SAS is a deeptech accelerator based in the Touraine region of France and inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, putting artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and quantum computing at the service of our planet. The company is providing research and innovation support services to leading European innovators.
Lab4Living is an interdisciplinary research group at Sheffield Hallam University based on a collaborative community of researchers in design, healthcare and creative practice. The research team brings expertise from allied health and nursing, product design and packaging, fine art, visual communication, performance, media and the humanities.
