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| http://www.emutagen.com | http://www.emutagen.com |
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| **Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg - Synthetic Aesthetics - How Would You Design Nature?** | **Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (artist/writer/designer) - Synthetic Aesthetics - How Would You Design Nature?** |
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| **Will scientists become the exclusive designers of living technology? | **Will scientists become the exclusive designers of living technology? |
| negotiate this changing interpretation of life.** | negotiate this changing interpretation of life.** |
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| Synthetic aesthetics is a research project at Stanford and Edinburgh Universities, initiated by scientists to investigate what this kind of design is and what it might hint at for future science and culture. It includes scientists, artists and designers | Synthetic aesthetics is a research project at Stanford and Edinburgh Universities, initiated by scientists to investigate what this kind of design is and what it might hint at for future science and culture. It includes scientists, artists and designers. |
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| http://www.daisyginsberg.com | http://www.daisyginsberg.com |
| "Insurance, the silent keystone of modern life" - "The problem with nanotech is the difficulty to estimate its risk." | "Insurance, the silent keystone of modern life" - "The problem with nanotech is the difficulty to estimate its risk." |
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| === **Related / Resources** === | === References / Further Reading === |
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| **Alter Nature** - http://www.alter-nature.be/en | **Alter Nature** - http://www.alter-nature.be/en |
| **Garreau, Joel** (2005) Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human - Doubleday. http://www.garreau.com/main.cfm?action=book&id=2 | **Garreau, Joel** (2005) Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human - Doubleday. http://www.garreau.com/main.cfm?action=book&id=2 |
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| ** Hasty Lab of Systems Biodynamics** - http://biodynamics.ucsd.edu/index.html | **Hasty Lab of Systems Biodynamics** - http://biodynamics.ucsd.edu/index.html |
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| | **Paolo Antonelli's (MoMA) article on governing by design**: "design applied not as a mere aesthetic or functional tool but as a conceptual method, based on scenarios that keep human beings in focus, with the means consequently allotted in elegant, economic, and organic ways to achieve the imagined goals. Even though design alone will not solve everything, it will, as always, help create and implement effective solutions that are attuned to human nature." - http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_governing_by_design/ |
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| | **Photosynthesizing bacteria** |
| | "Dawn of Plantimals. Could a fish with built-in photosynthetic bacteria help feed the world?" Debora MacKenzie and Michael Le Page, NewScientist, December 2010, Volume 208, #2790. Pp 33-35. Featuring Christina Agapakis' research (Harvard Medical School) and experiment on injecting photosynthetic bacteria into the eggs of zebrafish. |
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| | "[[http://blogs.plos.org/retort/2010/12/20/why-animals-so-rarely-photosynthesize/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+plos%2Fblogs%2Fmain+%28Blogs+-+Main%29|Why Most Animals So Rarely Photosynthesize]]" John Rennie, The Gleaming Retort, December 20,2010 |
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