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NatureCulture. 2024, 6, p. 80-102

Biotechnology and the Climate Emergency : Speculating with Grow Your Own Cloud

NatureCulture

英語

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2024

This article brings us into the world of Grow Your Own Cloud (GYOC), a speculative design intervention exploring the role of DNA as a storage technology. With a focus on two design prototypes, the authors draw the contours of a speculative world in which flowers and gardens become the environmental forms through which digital data is translated into DNA acids. As an art-science project at the edge of developments within synthetic biology, GYOC asks: what if data could be stored in plants? From this question emerges a conversation around, amongst other things, how we might re-imagine the role of digital infrastructures in the climate emergency: from scorching the earth to its potential regeneration. At the same time, such a question provokes thinking around the immense challenges and potential flourishings of emergent forms of collectivity (plant-data-human hybrids). And particularly because this project involves interacting with living systems through the transformation of genetic information, the ecological ethics of uploading and downloading data into plant life prompts important reflections upon intra-species caring. In essence, a more-than-human sensitivity is brought to bear on how we think about the environment, its potential collectivities, and their concomitant ethics.

10.18910/98528

98528

Biotechnology and the Climate Emergency : Speculating with Grow Your Own Cloud

NatureCulture

英語

2024

NatureCulture

6

80

102

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/98528

10.18910/98528

https://doi.org/10.18910/98528