is a: (nature + human) centric designer and researcher finding symbiosis between organic and artificial life

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The Biopod Co.
An organization democratizing the restoration of wetlands, equipping communities worldwide to come together and save our most biodiverse and productive ecosystems

Bio - intelligence
Designing cars powered by organisms, not algorithms

TEDx

Designing living machines with biological components to reduce e-waste

Aero

Designing intelligent materials embeded on robotic drones that sense air health and sequesters toxins within a location

Chitobot
Designing technology with a perishable skin

PFV
A vehicle inspired by living systems that facilitates a bridge between city and nature

S(kin)-orb
Enhancing human-to-human communication through personal robots

Threads

Turning clothes into computers, facilitating human-AI symbiosis to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing

29.4°+4°…
Speculating human mutation in the age of global warming

Living Archives
DNA data storage as a means of Interrogating our post life digital remains

Living Materials

Designing materials that conduct ecosystem services

Robo-reparans

In the absense of humans, robots learn to take care of eachother

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.