Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
- Speaker PopTech 2011
Archived blog posts
This week in PopTech: Mythologies of the not yet, building with biology and why things bounce back
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
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 …
Saturday round-up: Highlights, snapshots and quotable moments
Today we met an eleven-year old boy wonder, heard from Botswana’s first female high court judge, listened to the Earth through its auroras and earthquakes, and got the lowdown from the White House’s new head of the Office of Social Innovation. The “original Batman” taught the crowd echolocation, a man drew circles with his body and two Pakastani friends harmonized about their homeland…
