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Synthetic aesthetics : investigating synthetic biology's designs on nature /

"Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral fuels, sustainable manufacturing techniques, and innovative drugs, these researchers aim to redesign existing organisms and even construct completely n...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy (Autor), Calvert, Jane (Autor), Schyfter, Pablo (Autor), Elfick, Alistair (Autor), Endy, Andrew D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Synthetic biology : what it is and why it matters / Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy
  • Countering the engineering mindset : the conflict of art and synthetic biology / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
  • Design as the machines come to life / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
  • Nature is designed / Drew Endy
  • There is no design in nature / Pablo Schyfter
  • Design evolution / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
  • Bio logic / David Benjamin and Fernan Federici
  • Scale and metaphor / Pablo Schyfter
  • Living among living things / Will Carey [and others]
  • Constrained creativity : an engineer's perspective / Alistair Elfick
  • The biogenic timestamp : exploring the rearrangement of matter through synthetic biology and art / Oron Catts and Hideo Iwasaki
  • Time as critique / Jane Calvert
  • Synthetic sound from synthetic biology / Chris Chafe and Mariana Leguia
  • Abstraction and representation / Pablo Schyfter
  • Living machines / Sheref Mansy and Sascha Pohflepp
  • Evolution vs. design? / Jane Calvert
  • The inside out body / Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas
  • Transgressing biological boundaries / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.