TED Talks: Architecture in the Future that Repairs Itself?
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This short Technology and Entertainment Design Conference clip is byRachel Armstrong who states:
“Scientists need to work outside their own areas of expertise to make new technologies that are pertinent to the 21st century and to collaborate, both with other scientific disciplines and the arts and humanities.”
“Metabolic materials” – is whatTED Fellow Rachel Armstrong researches- construction materials that possess some of the properties of living systems, and can be manipulated to “grow” architecture.
Rachel thinks of this as we think about awesome parks or gardens because“metabolic materials” are made from terrestrial chemistry…
By Lucille Chi
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