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Six Academies Symposia: Synthetic Biology for the Next Generation
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
June 12-13 2012

2012

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

PopTech 2011 - "The World Rebalancing"
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 Flaslight 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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