Jalila Essaidi and FGCN wins the first Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award

9 December 2010

First Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award was presented for a bullet proof skin, an ecological bioreactor and an opera performed by mutated worms.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010, Robbert Dijkgraaf presented the first Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (DA4GA) to three winning projects in Naturalis, Leiden.

Jalila Essaidi and the Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands wins the award with their project 2.6g 329m/s will make a bullet proof skin by providing transgenic human skin with cast-iron spiders’ web. The project expressly asks the question if this technological innovation is socially desirable.

The other two winners are Maurizio Montalti and the Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation with their Systems Synthetics project and Matthijs Munnik and the Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology with their Microscopic Opera project.

DA4GA is an initiative of Waag Society, Netherlands Genomics Initiative and Centre for Society and Genomics. The jury feels that the three winning designs are sensational both artistically as well as scientifically and furthermore of great social relevance, because of the linking of scientists to designers. The winners received € 25.000, to be spent on the realisation of their proposal that will be on show from mid-June until the end of December 2011.

See also

 


9 December 2010

First Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award was presented for a bullet proof skin, an ecological bioreactor and an opera performed by mutated worms.

lijn