Towards genetc posthuman fronters in architecture & design

Abstract

This paper includes a brief history about the beginning of the practcal application of real genetcs to architecture and design. Genetcs introduces a privileged point-of-view for both biology and the digital realm, and these two are the main characters (the protagonists) in our posthuman society. With all of its positive and negative aspects, the study of genetcs is becoming the cornerstione of our posthuman future precisely because it is at the intersection of both fields, nature and computation, and because it is a science that can command both of them from within - one practcally and the other one theoretcally. Meanwhile, through genetcs and biodigital architecture and design, we are searching at the fronters of knowledge for planetary benefit. In order to enlighten us about these issues, the hero image (Figure 1) has been created within the framework of scanning electron microscope (SEM) research on the genesic level, where masses of cells organize themselves into primigenic structures. Microscope study was carried out at the same tme as the aforementioned genetc research in order to find structures and to learn typologies that could be of interest for architecture, here illustrated as an alternative landscape of the future. Behind this hero image is the laboratory's first effort to begin the real application of genetcs to architecture, thereby fighting for the sustainability of our entre planet and a beter world.