Author Archives: jcalver1

by Annie Hammang In late 2016, Engineering Life hosted the third of its fourth experimental workshops, on Mapping Synthetic Biology Workflows. Collaborative work between engineering biology (or, alternatively, synthetic biology) and the social sciences has been around nearly as long … Continue reading →

We are pleased to have this guest blog from Science and Technology Studies scholar and curator Hannah Star Rogers. Resurrecting the Sublime is a synthetic biology based artwork which presents the scents of extinct plants. A collaboration between synthetic biologist … Continue reading →

By Pablo Schyfter Engineering Life has launched a new website—‘Doing Engineering’—that presents different perspectives on engineering in a novel and playful way. The website is based on one of our workshops and like that workshop, tries to find diverse and … Continue reading →

By Sophie Stone Last month, I attended the annual synthetic biology conference, Synthetic Biology UK 2018 (SBUK2018). For those unfamiliar with the field’s conference landscape, SBUK is an annual event positioned as “the premiere UK synthetic biology meeting”. It is … Continue reading →

Jane Calvert Before starting the Engineering Life project, Pablo Schyfter and I were part of Synthetic Aesthetics, which brought together synthetic biologists, social scientists, and artists and designers to think about their work in new ways. The other members of … Continue reading →

Emma Frow Well, it has been about a month since I returned from the iGEM Jamboree in Boston. Since its humble beginnings in 2004, the Jamboree has outgrown its original venue at MIT and for the past two years has … Continue reading →

Jane Calvert Welcome to the Engineering Life blog! We are a group of researchers from the social sciences and the humanities studying the field of synthetic biology. You can read about the aims and objectives of the project here. In this … Continue reading →