Talks
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Design as the Machines Come to Life
Special Seminar
University of Warwick, UK
May 23, 2013
Real Fiction
Institute of Design
University of Applied Arts
Vienna, Austria
May 27, 2013
ArtScience Prize UK
Wellcome Trust, London, UK
June 7, 2013
ArtScience Prize Innovation Workshop
Le Laboratoire, Paris, France
June 23-28, 2013
SB6.0: The Sixth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
Imperial College, London, UK
July 9-11, 2013
2013
Improbable Africa
Afrofuture, Milan Design Week
La Rinascente
April 12, 2013
Synthetic Biology & Aesthetics
Advances in Systems & Synthetic Biology: Thematic Research School, Nice, France
March 25-29, 2013
Global Grand Challenges Summit
The Royal Academy of Engineering,U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Engineering
The Insitution of Engineering and Technology, London
March 12-13, 2013
Design Indaba
Cape Town, South Africa
February 27 - March 1, 2013
Materials Futures, Sustainability Series
Royal College of Art, London
February 18, 2013
2012
Design as the Machines Come to Life
Information Experience Design MA, Royal College of Art
December 14 2012
Design Debates: Design as Second Nature
Panel, with William Myers and Koert Van Mensvoort
Design Academy, Eindhoven
October 22 2012
Chemistry for Tomorrow's World 2012: Synthetic Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for the UK
Panel
Royal Society of Chemistry
5.30pm, November 22 2012
Design for Life: Synthetic Biology Smackdown
Panel, curated by the Guardian's Alok Jha
Royal Institution
October 4 2012
Cambridge BioDesign Forum
Microsoft Research, University of Cambridge
September 27 2012
London Design Medal Winners Talk
V&A Museum
September 20 2012
Picnic: Design Column #1 Micro Impact
Picnic Festival with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Amsterdam,
September 18 2012
Alterfutures: Alternative Future Scenarios Southern Africa: 1964 – 2050
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol UK
June 30 2012
Textile Futures Research Centre
Central St Martins, London
June 18 2012
Six Academies Symposia: Synthetic Biology for the Next Generation
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
June 12-13 2012
Designing Geopolitics 2
The Center for Design and Geopolitics
University of California, San Diego
June 2 2012
Watch the talk here and panel here
Speaker: Genomics in Society: Facts, Fictions & Cultures Conference
British Library, London
April 23-24 2012
Speaker: Creativity With Creation
Chair: Ken MacLeod, with Jane Calvert & Alistair Elfick
Edinburgh Science Festival
April 10 2012
Lecture: Social Dimensions of Systems and Synthetic Biology course
University of Edinburgh
April 5 2012
Speaker: Inspiring Matter Conference
Royal College of Art, London
April 2-3 2012
Speaker: Small is the New Big: Designing Our Future at the Nanoscale, Humanscale, and Beyond
Autodesk IDEAS: The Innovation + Design Series, San Francisco
March 27-29 2012
Debate: Science/Design Parallel Processes
Design Science Research Group, London
March 20 2012
Speaker: Design, Engineering and STS in Synthetic Biology
ESRC Seminar Series, University of Lancaster
March 23 2012
Speaker: Plastic Electronics Seminar, RCA ESP KTN
Royal College of Art, London
March 14 2012
Speaker: Designing Living Things with Christina Agapakis (UCLA), Jason Kelly (Ginkgobioworks) and Pattrick Boyle (Harvard)
SXSW Interactive 2012, Austin, Texas
March 9-13 2012
Speaker: Synthetic Biology Project Launch
Design Interactions MA, Royal College of Art
February 20 2012
Keynote: Synthetic Biology: Ethical Challenges in Saving the World
with Dr Ali Tavasoli and Dr Marcus Dymond
University of Southampton
February 7 2012
Lecture: Designing Nature?
Central St Martins, London
January 24 2012
2011
Speaker: Futurising Seminar
MA Textile Futures, Central St Martins, UK
November 23 2011
Workshop: Timeline, with Sascha Pohflepp
MA Architecture, Royal College of Art, UK
November 2011
The Battle of Ideas
Speaker, Designer People: is technology making us less human?
London, Royal College of Art, Sunday 30 October 12.30pm, 2011
Frog Design Inc
Guest speaker
NYC, October 27, 2011
Speaker, "The Changing Nature of Things"
USA, October 19-22 2011
Bestival
Speaker, Guerilla Science
Bestival, UK, September 2011
TEDGlobal 2011 "The Stuff of Life"
Speaker
Edinburgh, UK, July 2011
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Debate: Natural v Unnatural. The strange business of making people.
Edinburgh,7-8.15pm August 16, 2011
Review in Prospect
Synthesis Laboratory Exchange
Curator/designer
A one-week exchange laboratory in partnership with Arts Catalyst, Synthetics Aesthetics, UCL & SymbioticA
Funded by the Wellcome Trust.
UCL, London, July 4 - July 9 2011
SB5.0 Conference
Panel, Interacting With Society, Stanford University, USA
June 2011
Science and the Future - The Future of Life
Panel with with Sir Paul Nurse, Professor Ben Davis,
Professor Julian Savulescu and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg,
Oxford Literary Festival
2 - 7 pm April 3 2011, Oxford
Alter Nature: Designing Nature – Designing Human Life – Owning Life
Symposium, Hasselt, Belgium
February 18 2011
Speaker: Bio:Fiction Symposium: Art and Design on Synthetic Biology's Future
Natural History Museum, Vienna
May 13-14 2011
Exploring Synthetic Biology: Revolution, Regulation & Responsibilities Series
Panel with with Dr Jim Haseloff, Dr. Catherine Rhodes,
Melanie Duffield and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
BioCentre Think Tank, London
April 20 2011
2010
Curator/Chair, Synthetic Aesthetics Design Workshop
International Genetic Engineered Machines Competition 2010, MIT, USA 6 November 2010
Organised by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Curator, Synthetic Aesthetics Seminar
Form Follows Evolution, Function or Fashion
MIT Media Lab, USA 5 November 2010
Organised by Orkan Telhan &
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Visiting speaker, Synthetic Aesthetics Salon
Future natures in a culture of synthetic biology
Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
28 October 2010
Lecture, Field Reports on Design and Synthetic Biology, Part 2 Columbia School of Architecture
12 October 2010
Visiting speaker, NESTA/Royal Society of Chemistry Connections in Synthetic Biology Workshop, University of Southampton, September 30 2010
Masterclass for the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Awards at Picnic 2010 Festival
Amsterdam, September 24 2010
Conference speaker, Beyond the Tree of Life, London, 10 July 2010
Visiting faculty, Cambridge University iGEM, Cambridge, UK, July-September 2010
Visiting tutor, ArtScienceBangalore iGEM design workshop 2010, Bangalore, India, June 2010
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Conference speaker, Tsinghua University Art Science Media Lab Symposium, Beijing, China June 2010
Lecturer, Man Made Nature, Natural History Museum, London, 27 May 2010
Speaker, 'Designing Evolution', Dorkbot London, Great Western Studios, 14 April 2010
Conference speaker, 'Designers in the Lab', SynBioNt Symposium, University of Nottingham, 22 March 2010
Visiting tutor, 'Fact and Fiction in Synthetic Biology' workshop with James King, Royal College of Art, Feb 2010
Conference speaker, 'Synthetic Aesthetics',SynBERC retreat, JBEI, CA, 28 Feb 2010
Visiting lecturer, 'Designing Synthetic Biology', The Genomics Forum, University of Edinburgh, 5 Feb 2010
Visiting lecturer, 'Designers in the Lab', University of Edinburgh, 4 Feb 2010
2009
Conference speaker,Super Human: Revolution of the Species Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 23 Nov 2009
Speaker, SymbioticA Biotech & Art Workshop, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 19 Nov 2009
Visiting lecturer, Plant Energy Biology Centre, University of Western Australia, 17 Nov 2009
E. chromi, International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition Jamboree, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 30 Oct 2009 - 02 Nov 2009
Speaker, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, USA, 29 Oct 2009
Speaker, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth, 16 Oct 2009
Visiting lecturer, Art & Life Manipulation course, University of Western Australia, Perth, 09 Oct 2009
Speaker, IDEO, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 15 Sept 2009
Speaker, Near Future Laboratory, Los Angeles, USA, 08 Sept 2009
Speaker, EPSRC Flashlight Funding Workshop: Synthetic Biology, High Wycombe, 29 July 2009
Speaker, AlterFutures , London, 24 July 2009
Visiting lecturer & participant, Design Advisor Cambridge University Crash Course in Synthetic Biology iGEM 2009, Cambridge, UK, 29 June 2009 - 10 July 2009
Conference speaker, Digital Money Forum 2009, London, 31 Mar 2009
Lecture, The Long Now London: "Bacteria are the Future" at Demos, London, 18 Feb 2009
Speaker, SymbioticA Biotech Art Workshop, Sandnes Science Museum, Norway, 22 Nov 2008
Participant, SymbioticA Biotech Art Workshop , Article 08 Biannual for Electronic and Unstable Art, Stavanger, Norway, 17 Nov 2008 - 21 Nov 2008
Conference speaker, Everyday Digital Money Conference, "Future of Money/Early Exit" with Intel's People & Practices group, University of California at Irvine, USA, 18 Sept 2008
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