陈昱凝
Yuning Chen
Biodesign
Feminist STS
More-Than-Human
Ciao! I am Yuning Chen, a PhD candidate between Design Informatics (Edinburgh College of Art) and STIS (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies) at University of Edinburgh.
With a background in environmental science and design engineering, I am fascinated by the practice of designing with living organisms. And more importantly, how working with more-than-human life could challenge anthropocentric perspectives entrenched in our capitalist ecologies.
My practice-based research looks into more-than-human ethics in biodesign and the broader biotechnological practices, with a particular focus on labour justice and practice of resistance.
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Project:
Morality Calculus
Morality Calculus Food Theatre
Labour Provenance
Bevergising Spirits of Asilomar
Scents of Asilomar
Microbial Revolt
Carbon Alchemy
Plant Reality Set
Project Habitate
Mobius
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Feel free to contact me for collaborations or brainstorming ideas!
Carbon Alchemy is an interactive sci-art installation that communicates the latest research on valorising renewable carbon sources from the atmosphere through means of synthetic biology. By breathing your CO2 into the machinary, you can see a generative visual representation of the potential product that could be produced by this hybrid living circuit.
Through engineering E-coli's metabolic pathways, a group of researchers at the Max Planck Institute has discovered a way to work with these engineered organisms to feed on CO2-derived formate as the sole carbon source to produce valuable compounds that can replace petrochemicals (such as monomers for bioplastics, artificial protein meals, and solvents for paints and lacquer).
For more information, please read more at
Kim, S., Lindner, S.N., Asian, S. et al. Growth of E. coli on formate and methanol via the reductive glycine pathway. Nat Chem Biol 16, 538-545 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-020-0473-5
Credit:
Yuning Chen
Jenny Bakker
Michael Cheung
Weihaw Huang
Special Thanks to:
Stephen Devlin
Luca Cocconi
2022