Synthetic biologist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg to speak at Dezeen Day
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg will give a keynote lecture at Dezeen Day in London on 30 October.
The British multidisciplinary artist's work explores how design can help create a better world by harnessing emerging technologies and science disciplines.
She is particularly known for her work in synthetic biology ? a new branch of science that involves designing new life forms to solve problems and perform tasks for humans.
Ginsberg studied architecture at Cambridge University and interaction design at the Royal College of Art, followed by a PhD from the RCA.
Her first solo exhibition, Better Nature, is at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery until 24 November 2019. The show gathers together six of her key projects including an exploration of how Mars could be colonised by new species of plants; and Resurrecting the Sublime, which attempts to recreate the smell of long-extinct flowers.
Other key projects include Designing for the Sixth Extinction, which imagines a range of bio-engineered creatures that are released into the wild to help mitigate the damage humans are doing to planet Earth; and E. Chromi, which imagines new types of bacteria living inside the human gut that turn faeces bright colours that warn of impending disease.
In 2014 Ginsberg was one of six designers commissioned by Dezeen to explore the future of mobility for an exhibition staged during the London Design Festival. Part of the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers project, Ginsberg imagined a future where cars would be grown...
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