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What does it mean to design something? Can you design living things? Can we, or should we, control Nature? Are we part of or apart from Nature? Should we have let Buckminster Fuller build a giant dome over Manhattan in 1960!?
In this class, we'll explore these big-picture questions via the engineering terms biomimicry, biodesign, living machine, & others within the context of food & agriculture.
After a historical introduction to the core concepts & a tour through a rogue's gallery of eco-design from John & Nancy Jack Todd to TerreformOne, we will collectively workshop one potential future for the city of New York, in which it is resilient & food secure, thanks to any number of design interventions, of any level of whimsy, involving edible living things.
About the Instructor:
Wythe Marschall isis an anthropologist of plant-based startups, currently finishing his Ph.D. in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. His dissertation examines the production of value-in all senses of the word-using indoor agriculture. Previously, Wythe worked in the world of advertising & co-produced exhibitions on art & science in Brooklyn, critically exploring biotechnology & visions of future cities. Wythe received his BA in literature from Bennington College & his MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College, where he taught in the English Department for five years.
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