摘要：Technological and economic opportunities,alongside the apparent ecological benefits,point to biodesign as a new industrial paradigm for the fabrication of products in the twenty-first *** presented work studies plant roots as a biodesign material in the fabrication of self-supported 3D structures,where the biologically and digitally designed materials provide each other with structural *** a material-driven design approach,we present our systematic tinkering activities with plant roots to better understand and anticipate their responsive *** helped us to identify the key design parameters and advance the unique potential of plant roots to bind discrete porous *** illustrate this binding potential of plant roots with a hybrid 3D object,for which plant roots connect 600 computationally designed,optimized,and fabricated bioplastic beads into a low stool.