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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer, and writer. Her experimental practice explores values that shape design, science, and emerging technology through the design of objects, fictions, writing, and curating. Daisy has spent ten years researching synthetic biology and the design of living matter, and is lead author of Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature (MIT Press, 2014). In 2017, she completed Better, her PhD in Design Interactions at London’s Royal College of Art, interrogating powerful promises of “better” futures. Daisy received the London Design Medal for Emerging Talent in 2012, and the World Technology Award for design in 2011. Her work has been shown at MoMA New York, London’s Design Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Israel Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and the National Museum of China, and is in museum and private collections.