IMARA

2025

IMARA (Interstitial Machine for Aggregate Reparative Anatomies) is a modified desktop bioprinting platform integrating digital fabrication, custom hardware, and experimental biofabrication protocols. The system operates through a hybrid workflow combining 3D modelling, G-code, and extrusion of bioactive materials. Within its framework, tissues and organs are fabricated as adaptive, hybrid structures shaped by the conditions of their making.

Acting within a speculative future marked by cryogenic damage and bodily atrophy, IMARA reframes repair: multi-species anatomical strategies produce forms that exceed the vulnerabilities of human biology, producing soft, unstable, and variable anatomical forms. Rather than optimizing for control or efficiency, the system embraces maintenance, care, and failure as generative conditions. Biofabrication becomes an ongoing process of negotiation, where bodies are continuously reconfigured through interaction with vital material qualities, machines, and shifting environments.

IMARA was developed as part of the NEW SUNS Worldbuilding Lab for Radical Futures, hosted by Artengine, and with support from the Alarcón Lab at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.