Co-Labs: The Origin Story with co-founders Samuel Wines and Andrew Gray | #1

Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Inaugural Edition of The Strange Attractor! In this podcast, we delve into the Co-Labs' origin story, exploring where we came from and how we managed to build Victroia's first co-working lab and transdisciplinary innovation hub. We also discuss some of the fun projects that are happening in the lab.  Links to the members we discussed can be found below: Radetec: Point of Care STI DiagnosticsPuriflOH: air purification using plasmaVow: Alternative protein company working on meat productsMagic Valley: Food company developing cultivated meat productsSteribright: Autonomous smart sterilisation tech, using UVC and MERV/HEPA filtrationAuskelp: Creating an environmentally friendly form of aquaculture, using ocean kelpSymex Labs: Developing a biosensor patch to track ovulation using hormone sensingOmega Quant: Offers fatty acid analytical services to help consumers and researchers monitor their nutritional statusCortical Labs: creating silicon-neuron interfaces to create organic-digital intelligenceIf you're interested in some of the topics we covered, links can be found below to reference material: Designing Regenerative Cultures - Daniel Wahl The Systems View of Life - Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi LuisiIP-NFTs and FRENS, IP-NFTs article 2 DAOsA link to the transcript can be found here.Keep Following the PatternSam's InstagramSubstackCoLabs CoLabs NewsletterThis is an evolving experiment.The Strange Attractor is produced by Ecotone Studio — a creative practice exploring the fertile edge where art, science, technology and philosophy meet.Like the ecosystems we are a part of, this project is designed to evolve. Every conversation changes the next one.If there’s a question you’d like us to explore, a guest we should invite, or a theme you think deserves more attention, drop us a line. We’re especially interested in the spaces between disciplines—the ecotones where unexpected ideas emerge. If you’re building something thoughtful, beautiful or regenerative, or simply wrestling with questions that matter, we’d love to hear from you. Thanks for listening. Until next time — stay curious.