Join designer Orkan Telhan and curator Michelle Millar Fisher as they discuss the controversial Ouroboros Steak, a DIY meal kit for growing gourmet steaks from human cells.

Please note that as the first talk of the series, this event has now ended.

Join designer Josh Bongard and Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, Paola Antonelli as they discuss the design of a new kind of living robot, the Xenobot.

Orkan Telhan designs interrogative objects, interfaces, and media that investigate critical issues in cultural, environmental and social responsibility. He is Associate Professor Fine Arts—Emerging Design Practices at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design.

Michelle Millar Fisher is the Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work investigates the confluence power, people, and all forms of design. Her current project, with design historian Amber Winick, is at @designingmotherhood on Instagram.

Josh Bongard is the Veinott Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont. He runs the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory, which focuses on automated design of crowdsourced, soft-bodied and biological robots using evolutionary algorithms. He is the co-author of the book How the Body Shapes the Way We Think.

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research & Development. In collaboration with critic Alice Rawsthorn, Antonelli is currently working on @design.emergency, an Instagram and book project on the role of design in building a better future for all.

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