24 | Design With a Concern Lillybot 2.0 Company: Lillybot 2.0 Artist: Cesare Griffa, Italy www.cesaregriffa.com/lillybot-2-0 Created by a multi-disciplinary team of architects, biologists and researchers, LillyBot 2.0 is an automated device that cultivates edible micro-algae (Spirulina) in a domestic environment. A personal micro-algae farm is an environmentally friendly way to produce and consume a complete nutritional source that grows at the highest rates through photosynthesis, fixing CO2 and producing O2.LillyBot 2.0 is composed of an acrylic frame that contains the microalgae solution tank, the hydraulic and the electronic control systems, and a growing chamber based on the WaterLilly 2.0 system. Spirulina is considered a healthy food that contains all of the amino acids and Omega 3, and is a complete protein. Its growing rates are very fast because, like all photosynthetic monocellular organisms and unlike more complex green organisms, close to 100%