Manini Banerjee

Systems Designer & Research Engineer making environmental complexity legible and actionable.

COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGY:

BIOPOD Co.
ECOLOGY · INFRASTRUCTURE · SYSTEMS
Designing deployable ecological infrastructure for wetland restoration based on environmental research.

Ecological AI

PREDICTION · INTERFACE · DATA
A Decision-Support System for Targeted Ecosystem Restoration.

Algorithmic Morphogenesis

BIO-COMPUTATION · DATA MATERIALIZATION
inscribing real-time human neurological data (EEG) into living algal morphology using phototactic actuation

HARDWARE & INTERFACES:

Threads

EDGE ML · HARDWARE · TEXTILES
Sentient Surfaces + Edge ML on Textiles. Human-AI Symbiosis through Ubiquitous Computing.

S(kin)-orb
HAPTICS · BIOSENSING · AFFECTIVE COMP. A bio-digital interface translating electromyographic (EMG) signals into haptic feedback for remote affective communication.

Vermiform

COMPONENT · SOFT ROBOTICS · WEARABLE
Bio-mimetic architectures for wearable computing.

Chito-bot
BIOCOMPOSITES · TRANSIENT ELECTRONICS
Investigating material compliance and structural integrity in bio-composite hexapods.

STRATEGIC SYSTEMS:

PFV

MOBILITY · ECOLOGY · SYSTEMS

Autonomous Mobility as Urban Bio-Infrastructure.

Aero

SENSING · MATERIALS · DATA
Developing robotic material systems for localized air-quality sensing and pollutant sequestration through embedded environmental intelligence.

Bio - intelligence
COPMUTATION · SYSTEMS · BIOLOGY
Exploring biological computation as an alternative model for system intelligence and control.

Living Archives

Interrogating digital remains in the context of DNA data storage

Details: DNA Data Storage • UI/UX Design • User research

Client: GYOC (Grow Your Own Cloud) •Marcin Rusak Studio

Date: 2022

Mentors: Cyrus Clarke • Monika Seyfield

Team: Laura Saltzer • Manini Banerjee

Digital Remains [noun] - The archive of digitized material left after a being passes away.

We are increasingly leaving behind a larger and larger digital footprint when we die. There is limited legislation of what happens to this data, usually ending up in the hands of large corporations.

Living Archives aims to offer an alternative way to represent Digital Remains, removing them from environmentally destructive data servers and propose new ways we can experience precious memories through circular systems.

How can we interrogate digital remains in the context of DNA data storage?

The temporary and perpetual imprints, both direct and indirect, of our lives and existence are present in digital forms on the internet, in the cloud, or coded into other extractable sources” - J H Harrington

We wanted to study and create new practices for this space that are in tune with the irreverent rituals of physical remains

The following series of graphics illustrates information regarding DNA data storage as well as its ethics

Ultimately, digital remains can either exist as live artefacts or be immortalized through encapsulation within resin in various forms.