Fernan Federici
Fernan Federici is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge working in the area of Synthetic Biology. He started his career studying two years of Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina) and then moved to Chile to obtain an undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology. After working a year at Alvarez-Buylla’s lab at UNAM (Mexico), he moved to England to do a PhD in Biological Sciences at Cambridge. Fernan is currently working in a project entitled “The Programmable Rhizosphere”. This project, coordinated by Dr Haseloff (Cambridge) and Dr Wipat (Newcastle), seeks to design artificial plant-microbe communication and self-organization. Fernan is focused on how cellular circuits in plant cells can be designed to self-organise and interact with adjacent plant cells and bacteria in a predictable and robust fashion.
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David Benjamin
David Benjamin is Principal at architecture firm The Living, and Director of the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The practice and the lab emphasize open source research and design. Recent projects include Living City (a platform for buildings to talk to one another), Amphibious Architecture (a cloud of light above the East River that changes color according to conditions underwater), Living Light (a pavilion in Seoul that displays air quality and collective interest in the environment), and Proof (a series of design studios at Columbia that explore testing as a design methodology and evolutionary computation as an exploration technique). Before receiving a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia, Benjamin graduated from Harvard with a BA in Social Studies. www.thelivingnewyork.com
plants /
architecture /
modularity /
environment
architecture /
modularity /
environment
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