YCAM is an amazing arts center in Japan with exhibition spaces, a theatre, workshop spaces, and even a biotechnology lab.
Over the course of three days, 30 participants explored the topic of personal biotechnology, using 3 Bento Lab devices to prepare DNA samples for Nanopore sequencing.

The earliest sketches for what would eventually become Bento Lab were drawn in the summer of 2013. Bethan Wolfenden and I had just spent a year visiting DIYbio communities in Europe and the USA. We were excited by the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration and the potential for synthetic biology in citizen science.