AA DRL CollapseCollide

(as a reference) AA DRL. CollapseCollide Material research with magnets and ferrofluid with glue where one material acts as the carrier of another material.

One Month Fungi MicroCityScape

One Month Fungi Experiment in Micro-Urban-Scale ... hope the skyscrapers will be invaded next month...


One Month Fungi MicroCityScape


One Month Fungi MicroCityScape



One Month Fungi MicroCityScape - skyscrapers

Chernobyl Funghi

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/2095/silent-spring


"[...] on 26 April 1986, reactor No 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, blew apart, spewing radioactive dust and debris far and wide.

Ever since, a 30 km 'exclusion zone' has existed around the contaminated site, accessible to those with special clearance only. It's quite easy, then, to conjure an apocalyptic vision of the area; to imagine an eerily deserted wasteland, utterly devoid of life.

But the truth is quite the opposite. The exclusion zone is teeming with wildlife of all shapes and sizes, flourishing unhindered by human interference and seemingly unfazed by the ever-present radiation. Most remarkable, however, is not the life buzzing around the site, but what's blooming inside the perilous depths of the reactor..."

Adventures in Synthetic Biology

http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/

COMIC 1. Adventures in Synthetic Biology
This comic appeared in the following article
Foundations for engineering biology p449
Story: Drew Endy, Isadora Deese & The MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group
Art: Chuck Wadey, www.chuckwadey.com
Nature 438, 449 - 453 (24 November 2005)
doi:10.1038/nature04342



Comic 1
Title: Adventures in Synthetic Biology

Story: Drew Endy, Isadora Deese, & The MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group
Illustrator: Chuck Wadey -- www.chuckwadey.com

Chapter 1 - Programming DNA

http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/comic_text.html

AVATAR

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/otherhostedsites/avatar/intro.html

The Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Laboratory was founded in September 2004 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. By 2004 many teachers and students at the Bartlett were working with some aspects of virtuality but the full scope of the research was often contained within the hermetic unit system. AVATAR is conceived as a cross unit research group and agenda that explores all manner of digital and visceral terrain, its augmentation and symbiosis. AVATAR also has a dedicated Masters Programme for students. Over recent years AVATAR has grown into an international research collaborative centre. It attracts students from around the world and a critical mix of cultural, aesthetic and social agendas are encouraged.

AVATAR is fundamentally interested in research concerning the impact of advanced technology on architectural design, however it also contributes to discussion on issues such as aesthetics, philosophy and cybernetics.

Technologically, AVATAR concerns itself with virtuality (exploring fully immersed, mixed and augmented environments); Time based new media (film, video and film theory), Nano and bio technology (micro landscapes and architecture, ethics, sustainability and ecology) including reflexive environments and cybernetic systems.

Philosophically and artistically, AVATAR is convinced that the new technologies prompt a re-evaluation of Surrealist spatial protocols and tactics. Also it believes that Alfred Jarry's proto- surrealist poetic pseudo science of 'Pataphysics and its idea of the 'Clinamen"- the swerve (chance) has great import on what we do. The choreography of digitally enabled chance allows us to create architecture of blossoming possibility where events are fleeting, exceptional and particular.

Neil Spiller:
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/otherhostedsites/avatar/spiller.html

Rachel Armstrong:
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/people/A_armstrong_rachel.htm

next nature

http://www.nextnature.net/

rachel armstrong

Rachel is currently collaborating with international scientists and architects to explore cutting-edge, sustainable technologies by developing metabolic materials in an experimental setting. These materials possess some of the properties of living systems and couple artificial structures to natural ones in the anticipation that our buildings will undergo an 'origins of life' style transition from inert to living matter and become part of the biosphere. By generating metabolic materials it is hoped that cities will be able to replace the energy they draw from the environment, respond to the needs of their populations and eventually become regarded as alive in the same way that we think about parks or gardens. Since metabolic materials are made from terrestrial chemistry they are not exclusive to First World countries and have the potential to transform urban environments worldwide.

http://www.rachelarmstrong.me/