‘Biodesign for Social Impact’ is a workshop created by Eva Auer, Sean Greaves and Joseph Revans that explores the potential of synthetic biology to radically alter the social and political landscape of the future. The workshop was held throughout the day on Saturday 28th of October at the Student Hotel in Eindhoven as part of […]
BETTER Daisy Ginsberg, Royal College of Art http://daisyginsberg.com/ Monday, 5th June, 3.30-5.00pm 1.06 Old Surgeons’ Hall Designers often advocate that design makes things better. In promising a better future, they are not alone: engineers, marketers, politicians and scientists also invoke the imaginary of better, creating dreams that have very material effects. In some of these visions, […]
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Introduction Our team started by choosing to focus on the topic of communication, specifically how biological technologies challenge the borders that our society creates. Borders are drawn between concepts, spaces, places and bodies across all conceivable scales, and although within a human time frame they may appear to be immutable – it is important to […]
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Slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures. Slime molds were formerly classified as fungi but are no longer considered part of that kingdom. From Wikipedia: They feed on microorganisms that live in any type of dead plant material. They contribute to […]
A simple laboratory demonstration, the Winogradsky Columns, illustrates how different microorganisms perform their interdependent roles: the activities of one organism enable another to grow, and vice-versa. These columns are complete, self-contained recycling systems, driven only by energy from light. Invented in the 1880s by Sergei Winogradsky, the device is a column of pond mud and water mixed […]
Introduction to biology presentation (10th February) Interesting video to complete the presentation : Assembly animation from the slides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBE8Mn9ts6A https://www.dnalc.org/content/c16/16933/3d-central-dogma-audio-title.mp4 Assembly animation from the slides
Biopolitics: Sean Greaves, Ellie Powell, Joe Revans, Eva Auer || Human skin is communicative and porous with pigmentation that has cultural and social significance, extending into the political and cosmetic. Ageism, preservation and preference underpin our cultural perspectives on skin. Such narratives are challenged by a medium that is perpetually in motion, undergoing change and […]
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