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== Designing Biology talk, 31 oct 2013, rca ==
 
== Designing Biology talk, 31 oct 2013, rca ==
 
* amy congdon - contemporary futures for biology and textiles
 
* amy congdon - contemporary futures for biology and textiles
* daisy ginsberg - e.chromi - taxonomies for synthetic biologies, working with scientists. science funding. patents for slugs. "rewilding". synthetic aesthetics - how can we design nature, and how can we design nature well? what i understood from her work is that her idea of writing these fictions is not that they will come true but they point towards the direction we should explore in the future? biological privacy?
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* daisy ginsberg - e.chromi / taxonomies for synthetic biologies, working with scientists. science funding. patent applications for slugs that are designed in a specific way - her debate with an ecologist about how these slugs were made to be non biodegradable because she thought they should exist in their own ecosystem but then... its an ongoing debate / "rewilding". synthetic aesthetics - how can we design nature, and how can we design nature well? what i understood from her work is that her idea of writing these fictions is not that they will come true but they point towards the direction we should explore in the future? biological privacy?
* charlotte jarvis - ergo sum, stem cell, donation of blood urine and skin (adult cells) - to make immortal cells - i realized why i find her work a little narcisstic - her cells made immortal (stem cell) and staring at her face in the mirror of the altar of biology. interesting work but still i find it hard to stare it in the face.
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* charlotte jarvis - ergo sum, stem cell, donation of blood urine and skin (adult cells) - to make immortal cells // i realized that i find her work a little narcissistic - her cells made immortal (stem cell) and staring at her face in the mirror of the altar of biology - all very interesting work but still i find it hard to stare it in the face.
 
* raphael kim - drug discovery and development timeline, protein folding, bacterial money and financial models, architectural biology
 
* raphael kim - drug discovery and development timeline, protein folding, bacterial money and financial models, architectural biology
 
* damien palin - biomineralisation
 
* damien palin - biomineralisation
* james field - synthetic biologist from imperial college - iGem
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* james field - synthetic biologist from imperial college - iGem, project auxin - imperial is interested to collaborate / koby barhad - buying a hair from elvis, sequencing the dna, putting it into a mouse "all that i am" 2012 / blighted by kenning 2012 an apple that is sequenced with something else / millie clive-smith, cross wired iii 2013 /
  
 
== links ==
 
== links ==

Revision as of 18:43, 31 October 2013

Designing Biology talk, 31 oct 2013, rca

  • amy congdon - contemporary futures for biology and textiles
  • daisy ginsberg - e.chromi / taxonomies for synthetic biologies, working with scientists. science funding. patent applications for slugs that are designed in a specific way - her debate with an ecologist about how these slugs were made to be non biodegradable because she thought they should exist in their own ecosystem but then... its an ongoing debate / "rewilding". synthetic aesthetics - how can we design nature, and how can we design nature well? what i understood from her work is that her idea of writing these fictions is not that they will come true but they point towards the direction we should explore in the future? biological privacy?
  • charlotte jarvis - ergo sum, stem cell, donation of blood urine and skin (adult cells) - to make immortal cells // i realized that i find her work a little narcissistic - her cells made immortal (stem cell) and staring at her face in the mirror of the altar of biology - all very interesting work but still i find it hard to stare it in the face.
  • raphael kim - drug discovery and development timeline, protein folding, bacterial money and financial models, architectural biology
  • damien palin - biomineralisation
  • james field - synthetic biologist from imperial college - iGem, project auxin - imperial is interested to collaborate / koby barhad - buying a hair from elvis, sequencing the dna, putting it into a mouse "all that i am" 2012 / blighted by kenning 2012 an apple that is sequenced with something else / millie clive-smith, cross wired iii 2013 /

links

to explore further

  • what is biogeology?
  • cisco jabber video (they tried to do a call)