Human Impact

User and Non-user

• Changes the perception of our relationship with microbiome for both users and non-users
• Changes the perception of self, family and cultural identity
• Enable users and non-users access to more personal data which may lead to more privacy concerns and issues
• May change the lifestyle or daily activities with the altered perception
  • Hygiene practice
  • Cooking habits
  • Social interactions
  • Privacy protection

Scalability

• Exists in multiple scales: affordable kit + the vault
• Use in multiple industries: from family, restaurants to city and even culture
• Multiple use cases for different scales
• Can be scaled/applied to various cultures: the food item in the end can be sourdough for Western culture, and Tofu/soy sauce for Asian cultures, for instance.

Cultural and Ethics

• Could be problematic if used as surveillance, data collection, government control: question of how to regulate the data, ownership of data needs to be addressed (Do not want to become the next 23andme)
• Concerns about the safety of food products made from human microbiome and the notion of byproducts of human
• Is this a relevant conversation for places where they are at a stage of development where sanitary issues is a concern and hence had to adopt an antibacterial perspective in their communities

Suatainability

Environment

• Use of natural materials, such as hemp, cotton, and degraddable plastics

Stakehodler

• Re-usable products
• No waste

Public

• Increase the appreciation and awareness of “cooking with hand” as cultural heritage
• Encourage audience to rethink the identity of human from the perspective of nature and micro-organism