This powerful collection of essays by incredible women is printed and out in the wild. It contains a piece reflecting on Dr Laia Mogas-Soldevila’s journey on biomaterial architectures across science and design discussing her doctoral work on 'Reviving Matter', at The SilkLab Tufts Biomedical (2016-2020).
Bio/Matter/Techno/Synthetics: Design Futures for the More than Human represents the design and intellectual work of women who create, make, and ideate at the intra-section of nature, artifice, and technology. Their desire to propagate, generate, calibrate, fabricate, interrogate, and animate all manner and matter of things motivates this collection of essays. The [28] women of B/M/T/S have charted critical paths to design inspiration and material productivity from positions both embedded within and tangential to their disciplines. Future-ready visions and historically grounded critiques are offered across twenty-three texts authored by designers and thinkers who, living in a world of both abundance and trauma, take seriously their responsibility to make ethically. Operating in ever more complex aesthetic, ethical, environmental, and socio-political contexts and practicing at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape architecture, environmental design, material studies, emerging technologies, digital fabrication, media studies, robotics, and critical theory, the women of B/M/T/S have redefined the very origins, principles, and values of design.
Authors: Sonja Dumpelmann, Aroussiak Gabrielian, Gundula Proksch, Lucinda Sanders, Ayasha Guerin, Laia Mogas-Soldevila, Andrea Ling, Mae-Ling J Lokko, Rebecca Popowsky, Julia Lohmann, Martina Decker, Behnaz Farahi, Stefana Parascho, Dorit Aviv, Viola Ago, Jacqueline Wu, S.E. Eisterer, Clarissa Tossin, Jenny Sabin Studio, Rachel Armstrong, Patricia J Olynyk, Kathy Velikov, and Anne Beim
Editors: Franca Trubiano, Susan Kolber, Marta Llor, Maria Jose Fuentes, Amber Farrow
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