Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: A new discourse between science and design
Designer and artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg devotes her time to reworking the language of design to account for the biotech revolution. The tool kit that’s currently at our fingertips, she believes, limits our ability to fully imagine the possibilities. She’s been looking to synthetic biology, or the design and construction of new biological functions and systems not found in nature, to rejuvenate a design discourse. “Synthetic biology turns science into technology and biology into a design discipline and we need to readdress our understanding of what design is and reevaluate it,” Ginsberg explained from the PopTech stage last month. In making work around the cultural function of biological objects, she hopes to combine science and design in a meaningful exchange.
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