What is Mi_Crochet Lab?
It is a comic book style story, set in a crocheted microbiology laboratory. The story is told from the perspective of Science Bee, a microbiology researcher and general all round awesome scientist. Mi_Crochet lab is told through the release of volumes and issues. Volume 1 tells the story behind Science Bee’s research into the production of sustainable fashion using bacterial cellulose and is broken into several issues which each tell a specific part of the story. Issues will be released approximately every 2 months.
What is it’s purpose?
My AuDHD brain loves finding strange ways that I can combine my interests and Mi_Crochet Lab is a combination of my three favourite things: fibre crafts, microbiology, and sustainability. It is a tribute to the research that is being carried out in microbial fabrics, telling one tiny aspect of the sustainable fashion story using sustainable materials.
I also love finding new ways to communicate science to a new audience. During my past career, I spent thousands of hours standing at a podium talking about science in the name of education. Lots of people enjoy learning this way but many, like me, find we don’t engage with traditional learning methods and easily disengage from education because of this. I wanted to put an alternative way of learning out into the science ethos. Mi_Crochet lab is just as much about my learning journey as it is about communicating science. I learn best when I am building things. The process of doing something practical is a good distraction for my ADHD brain and keeps me interested in a project or topic.
So, Mi_Crochet lab is inspiration for all the alternative learners out there like me. Why not build your own fabulous learning world and see where it takes you?