Towards Genetic Posthuman Frontiers in Architecture & Design (2016)
article⁄Towards Genetic Posthuman Frontiers in Architecture & Design (2016)
abstract⁄This paper includes a brief history about the beginning of the practical application of real genetics to architecture and design. Genetics introduces a privileged pointofview for both biology and the digital realm, and these two are the main characters the protagonists in our posthuman society. With all of its positive and negative aspects, the study of genetics is becoming the cornerstone of our posthuman future precisely because it is at the intersection of both fields, nature and computation, and because it is a science that can command both of them from withinone practically and the other one theoretically. Meanwhile, through genetics and biodigital architecture and design, we are searching at the frontiers of knowledge for planetary benefit. In order to enlighten us about these issues, the hero image Figure 1 has been created within the framework of scanning electron microscope SEM research on the genesic level, where masses of cells organize themselves into primigenic structures. Microscope study was carried out at the same time as the aforementioned genetic research in order to find structures and to learn typologies that could be of interest for architecture, here illustrated as an alternative landscape of the future. Behind this hero image is the laboratory’s first effort to begin the real application of genetics to architecture, thereby fighti hti ng for the sustainability of our entire planet and a better world
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2016 |
| Authors |
Estevez, Alberto. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines |
| Pages |
450-459 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
towards-genetic-posthuman-frontiers-architecture-design |
