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Writing & Curation
The Lost Rhino
Writing & Curation
The Wilding of Mars
Writing & Curation
Art et Écologie
Writing & Curation
Interspecies Futures [IF]
Limited Editions
Pollinator Pathmaker
Writing & Curation
Hyundai Commission 2021: Anicka Yi  
Writing & Curation
Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell  
Writing & Curation
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Artwork
Pollinator Pathmaker
Writing & Curation
Resurrecting the Sublime
Writing & Curation
Nuevos Formatos, Nuevos Imaginarios
Artwork
Machine Auguries
Artwork
Resurrecting the Sublime
Artwork
The Substitute
Writing & Curation
Species Extinction
Artwork
The Wilding of Mars
Limited Editions
A Bunch of Martian Flowers
Writing & Curation
In Search of Better Worlds
Writing & Curation
The Wilding of Mars
Writing & Curation
Better Nature
Writing & Curation
Naturing/Renaturing
Writing & Curation
Journal of Design and Science
Writing & Curation
Better Nature
Writing & Curation
Critical Imaginaries  
Writing & Curation
Better (PhD)
Writing & Curation
CRISPR Emoji
Writing & Curation
Reading the Small Print
Writing & Curation
Design Pour La Sixième Extinction
MCD Magazine

Using the language of design to test and explore the delicate relationship between synthetic biology and conservation.

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Writing & Curation
Synthetic biology could use some questions from humans
Wired UK

As sustainable cleaning-product company Ecover discovered, the question whether synthetic biology is a sustainable technology still needs to be answered. 

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Writing & Curation
Digital Farming: Robocrop
Icon Magazine

Farmland is becoming digitised, with the giants of global agribusiness developing combine harvesters that drive themselves and drones that monitor the water content of crops. Humans, meanwhile, continue their retreat from the land.

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Writing & Curation
Book: Synthetic Aesthetics
Artwork
Designing for the Sixth Extinction
Artwork
Seasons of the Void
Writing & Curation
The Prefuture of Synthetic Biology
Volume magazine

While synbio start-ups—large and small—struggle with the reality of scaling up microscopic cellular factories into profitable business models, stories of DIY anti-cancer research, Neanderthal cloning, limitless ‘green’ kerosene, and tumor-killing bacteria are told as outcomes of a likely future where humans have full control over biology.

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Writing & Curation
Grow Your Own... Life After Nature
Writing & Curation
Molecular Gastronomy of the Future
DAMn magazine

For better or for worse, some foodstuffs are becoming unrecognisable in relation to their originals, if not visually then compositionally. In other cases, they are exploited merely to humour us.

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Writing & Curation
Synthetic Aesthetics
Writing & Curation
Designs on Nature
RSA Journal

Synthetic biology has the potential to transform the manufacturing sector, but it requires a new way of thinking about the relationship between design and science, between nature and industry, and even between creator and product.

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Writing & Curation
Guest Editor, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
Artwork
Growth Assembly
Artwork
The Supertask
Writing & Curation
The Irrational Genome Design Contest
Thresholds Journal

Proposing an alternative vision for synthetic biology, The Irrational Genome Design Contest celebrates unintentional design and the wider ecosystem, encouraging nature to better design itself.

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Writing & Curation
Synthesis Exchange Laboratory
Artwork
E. chromi: Living Colour from Bacteria
Artwork
The Synthetic Kingdom: A Natural History of the Synthetic Future
Writing & Curation
The Well-Oiled Machine
Icon Magazine

“Not again,” he whispered to himself in dismay. “It’s the damned Lubricant, and it was Supa FoolProof this time”. He hated his car, everything he poured into it, everything that seeped out of it. He couldn’t even call it a car, but the nostalgic word took the edge off his fury.

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Writing & Curation
The Biological Turk
The New City Reader, New Museum

While efforts to reconstruct the elusive magic of human problem-solving and instinct in silicon continue, other researchers are finding novel ways to combine silicon computing with one of nature’s best computers: our own grey matter.

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Writing & Curation
To Form and Multiply
Design Indaba

Synthetic biology promises a shift from biology as science towards “biology as technology”. If biology has up until now been descriptive—the investigation and unravelling of complex living systems—then synthetic biology proposes the construction of a design framework for a prescriptive biology.

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Artwork
Early Exit
Writing & Curation
Design Evolution: Microbes and the Everyday

What does design, integral to the developments of the Industrial and Information Revolutions, have to ‘offer’ to the manipulation of living organisms for technological purpose?

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Building new life forms at the iGEM Jamboree
Wired.co.uk

When you're faced with the entire living kingdom as a materials library, what do you design? With this question in mind, I walked into the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Jamboree, equipped with an aluminium briefcase full of multi-coloured poo.

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Writing & Curation
The Synthetic Kingdom
Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media

Our increasingly complex scientific world functions in the realm of the microscopic, obscuring the macroscopic big picture. Secreted away in the laboratory, biotechnology is unapproachable, yet it promises to change our lives.

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