Living Factory: Designing and Manufacturing with Synthetic Biology
23 January 18:30 -20:30, Kings Cross, London
The word factory conjures up very specific images, but what if in future a factory resembled a greenhouse? Synthetic biology is an emerging science which allows us to reprogram living organisms with the purpose to generate custom-made materials.
The focus of the evening is to question whether we can ‘technologise’ our way out of our environmental crisis with synthetic biology. Have we reached a point of no return, whereby synthetic biology, an extreme form of genetic manipulation, can be promoted as a champion of sustainability? This event proposes a 360° review of this disruptive technology in the context of designing a positively sustainable future and aims at fostering a debate amongst biologists, policy makers, designers and manufacturers.
Via a series of expert talks, we will introduce the concept of synthetic biology as an emerging ‘disruptive technology’, and examine the consequence of moving from ‘manufacture to biofacture’, and in particular the sustainable and ethical issues that surround the idea of engineering a living factory. Click here for more information and the event flyer.
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