DIYbio: Making things and making futures

► DIYbio is emerging in an ambiguous move: depending on institutionalized biology and simultaneously contesting it. ► BigBio appears as a way of producing the biological that is both too slow and remote, and simultaneously too accelerated. ► DIYbio projects futures that build on direct action and the right to do biology. ► DIYbio designs entail a mundane an immediate way of producing the new. ► DIYbio might turn into a transfer of materialities and temporalities from public domains to science.