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Biolab consulting

Experienced consultant for building biolabs — especially crossover spaces between design, art, and science — with a focus on living systems, biomaterials, and sustainability-oriented projects.

Shem built the Grow Lab at Central Saint Martins from the ground up and ran it as lab manager. He's also consulted for the Royal College of Arts Material Science Research Center. Building on the success of these spaces, Shem helps other institutions develop cross-collaborative labs to push research and design into novel directions — having supported hundreds of master's students in Biodesign, Material Futures, and Art & Science along the way.

Services
  • — Lab infrastructure planning & equipment specification
  • — Build-out and running cost analysis
  • — Health & Safety, biosafety, & regulatory guidance
  • — Staff training & workshops
  • — Structuring interactions between staff and users
  • — Guidance on specific organisms of interest
Enquire about a build
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Biodesign consulting

Six+ years in a high-energy lab environment working with a vast list of organisms, bioprocesses, and biomaterials — well-poised to consult companies, startups, and the highly curious on their ideas.

Services
  • — Experimental design, scientific approach, feasibility
  • — Bacteria, algae, mycelium, plants, and others
  • — Biomaterials, bioprocesses, and scale-up
  • — Sustainability-focused, circular thinking
  • — Grounded, realistic approaches to modern problems
Material library

Bacterial cellulose · bacterial pigments · 3D-printed biomaterials · bioplastics · nanocellulose · biomineralized substrates · mycelium materials.

Enquire about a project
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About the studio

Inquiries
Consulting, residencies,
commissions.
© 2026 Studio of Shem — All works original
v 0.1 — portfolio build
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