Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's experimental practice critically explores the values that shape design, science, technology, and nature through the design of objects and fictions, and through writing and curatorial projects. Daisy has spent ten years researching synthetic biology and the design of living matter, working with scientists, engineers, artists, designers, social scientists, and museums around the world. She is lead author of "Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature" (MIT Press, 2014), and in 2017 completed “Better", her PhD by practice in Design Interactions at London's Royal College of Art, interrogating powerful dreams of “better” futures and how they manifest in different kinds of material things (supervised by Professors Sarah Teasley and Anthony Dunne). Daisy received the London Design Medal for Emerging Talent in 2012, and the World Technology Award for design in 2011. Daisy publishes, lectures, teaches, and exhibits internationally, including at MoMA New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Moscow Art Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and the National Museum of China, and her work is in museum and private collections.
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