Designing with living systems, a new prerogative?

With the emerging biological revolution and a set of extraordinary toolkits that allow us to engineer and program life from scratch, comes a need to reevaluate the position and potential of design. Designers have begun to either embrace or rebel against this emerging bioengineered world and as a result, new design directions are beginning to arise. The lecture will expose this new design landscape where fragments of a possible programmable synthetic future are confronted with ‘natural’ alternative design perspectives.