Architectural biology and biological architectures
June 27, 2017
Eyeo 2017 - Deb Chachra from Eyeo Festival // INSTINT on Vimeo.
I was delighted to be invited to speak at the brilliant Eyeo Festival in Minneapolis this year. I gave a talk about the last two hundred or so years, and the next fifty or so years of engineering structures, in which I argue that increasing computational power, embedded sensors, and the ability to carry out fabrication in situ means that architecture is approaching the geometries and responsiveness to mechanical force of tissues in organisms. And yes, I was indeed delighted at the chance to spend fifteen minutes explaining bone biology to a roomful of designers.
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April 11, 2015
I was invited to give a talk at the Matter[ing] by Design symposium at Parsons/New School, and I spoke about gender differences and design, including Lego, snowboards, artificial hearts, and engineering education. My talk starts at the 19 minute mark, but I highly recommend the talk that follows mine (at 35min) by Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist, who was then at Intel.
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