Manini Banerjee    
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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 embedded on robotic drones that sense air health and sequester 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 absence of humans, robots learn to take care of each other.





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TEDx

TED·ex

Designing living machines with biological components 
to reduce e-waste




Details: Public Speaking

Client: TEDxRISD

Date: Spring 2023


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As seen on the TEDx

Speaker at the inaugural TEDxRISD conference: Unravel: Ideas worth disentangling. 

My design practice explores the concept of undoing e-waste by creating utopias of biological symbiosis between humans and the technology we interact with every second.

Living Machines: in my terms, features parts or entire machines that are natural or biological. Designing in this way means fewer parts of our technology turn into polluting e-waste.