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Index
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: How Would You Design Nature?
Part One Designs on Nature
1 Synthetic Biology: What It Is and Why It Matters
Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy
2 Countering the Engineering Mindset: The Conflict of Art and Synthetic Biology
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
3 Design as the Machines Come to Life
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Part Two Nature versus Design
4 Nature Is Designed
Drew Endy
5 There Is No Design in Nature
Pablo Schyfter
6 Design Evolution
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Part Three Synthetic Aesthetics
Logic
7 Bio Logic
David Benjamin and Fernan Federici
8 Scale and Metaphor
Pablo Schyfter
Process
9 Living among Living Things
Will Carey, Wendell Lim, Adam Reineck, and Reid Williams
10 Constrained Creativity: An Engineer’s Perspective
Alistair Elfick
Time
11 The Biogenic Timestamp: Exploring the Rearrangement of Matter through Synthetic Biology and Art
Oron Catts and Hideo Iwasaki
12 Time as Critique
Jane Calvert
Structure
13 Synthetic Sound from Synthetic Biology
Chris Chafe and Mariana Leguia
14 Abstraction and Representation
Pablo Schyfter
Evolution
15 Living Machines
Sheref Mansy and Sascha Pohflepp
16 Evolution or Design?
Jane Calvert
Cultures and Context
17 The Inside-Out Body
Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas
18 Transgressing Biological Boundaries
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Epilogue: Reflections on Synthetic Aesthetics
Notes
About the Authors
Source Notes
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