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WEEK 9
Cohen provocatively explores the idea of using animals as medical devices. In the example on the left, Cohen adopts a pedigreed greyhound that’s retired from the racetrack and is adopted by a patient who requires mechanical ventilation.
On the right, a dialysis sheep is created using recombinant DNA to remove waste products from the blood of a patient suffering from kidney failure.
WEEK 8
Designers Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and James King worked with a team of scientists in the field of synthetic biology to explore the use of color in genetically engineered bacteria as a feedback mechanism to provide useful information ranging from indicating whether drinking water is safe to the presence of various types of gut bacteria.
WEEK 7
Kerridge explores how we might express the interior workings of our body and our exterior behaviors into physical objects. Cybernetics offers us a powerful framework to abstract complex systems into diagrammatic structures. How might we extend this by using objects and experiences to express our self-care system through the framework of cybernetics?
WEEK 6
Euthanasia Coaster by Julijonas Urbonas
Urbonas conceives a roller coaster as a hypothetical euthanasia machine that takes the rider through “a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death.” Urbonas talks about the project.
WEEK 5
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