On day 12 of the Dezeen 15 digital festival, designer Natsai Audrey Chieza of Faber Futures sets out five principles for the emerging field of biodesign.
In her manifesto, Chieza explains how new biotechnologies, including synthetic biology, could transform the world ? if we are careful.
"If we want a truly equitable future, we have to create the circumstances in which one can happen," she writes. "Inequality is a design choice. Design creates and perpetuates those systems. It can transform them, too."

Intro
Nature provides the starting point for re-envisioning design. It not only teaches us how closed-loop systems work but how no two systems are necessarily alike. It embeds lessons on reciprocity, regeneration, adaptation, transformation, and an instinct to provide care. Faber Futures models design briefs on five principles for doing and nurturing opportunities to create transformative systems.

 
Five principles:
1. We act in defence of the world to come
Biotechnology is evolving rapidly, bringing new possibilities and promises of untold innovation. It offers us an exciting new toolbox to build the future but we have to use it responsibly. We are the ancestors and midwives of all life yet to be ? human and non-human. Therefore we cannot think solely in the short term.
At Faber Futures, we take the long-term view, actively championing the security and sustainability of a world that does not yet exist.
1.1 There is a moral responsibility for biodes...