Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology's Designs on Nature
Daisy Ginsberg
Wednesday, 02 Apr 2014 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores the shared territory of science, engineering, art and design as a Design Fellow with the international research project Synthetic Aesthetics. She is especially interested in new roles for design in emerging fields like synthetic biology, which aims to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, ranging from biofuels to medical applications. Daisy Ginsberg studied architecture at Cambridge University, design at Harvard University, and earned an MA in design interactions at the Royal College of Art. She is coauthor of the forthcoming book Synthetic Aesthetics and guest-edited a recent issue of the scientific journal Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. National Affairs Series on Innovation and Women in STEM Series"As a designer and artist, I'm interested in whether biology can ever truly be designed, and if it can, using design to ask what we should - or shouldn't - designing with it." Daisy Ginsberg
Cosponsored By:
- College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
- College of Design
- College of Engineering
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Human Computer Interaction Program
- Industrial Design
- National Affairs
- Office of Biotechnology
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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