Emotional and smart Inspiration

Rca Design ineractions related to Bacteria

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A Radical Means

A radical departure from current means of human production is needed and possible through the study and mimesis of nature.

A Radical Means is a microbally induced casting procedure, which presents the bacteria Sporosarcina pasteurii as a method for cementing natural granular materials using minerals as a binding agent, for the creation of artefacts. This methodology suggests a radical future vision of industrial manufacturing, which is able to produce and form mineral composites at biological temperatures.

Johanna Sim’s Statement

Tinkering with Nature’s Circuits

Synthetic biology – new, fluid and ever-changing is blurring the boundaries between biology, chemistry, engineering, and computing. This is a place where cameras are built from bacteria, and where plans are being made to create truly artificial life, built by radically redesigning the most fundamental interface where science meets nature.

By taking existing yet constantly evolving science and using it to penetrate a process as familiar and universal as the morning ritual, I hope to illustrate the huge impact these emerging technologies can have in our daily lives. And what ethical questions will be raised by the literal integration of new technologies into our most private even sacred spaces? Our homes, our minds, even our bodies?

Johanna Sim’s CV

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johanna.sim@alumni.rca.ac.uk

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