Name: TEDx】感官的合成生物學| Ani Liu | TEDxBeaconStreet (【TEDx】Synthetic biology for the senses| Ani Liu | TEDxBeaconStreet)
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could sense the toxicity levels in the soil

and express that toxicity through the color of its leaves?

What if those plants could also remove those toxins from the soil?

is driven by the motivations of mass-produced commodities?

My name is Ani, and I'm a designer and researcher at MIT Media Lab,

where I'm part of a relatively new and unique group called Design Fiction,

where we're wedged somewhere between science fiction and science fact.

And at MIT, I am lucky enough to rub shoulders with scientists

studying all kinds of cutting edge fields

And across campus, there's truly brilliant scientists

asking questions like, "How can I make the world a better place?"

And part of what my group likes to ask is, "What is better?"

Can you imagine what it would say about the work-life balance at your office

if these were standard issue on the first day?

I believe it's the role of artists and designers

Art is how you can see and feel the future,

and today is an exciting time to be a designer,

for all the new tools becoming accessible.

seeks to write biology as a design problem.

my lab asks, what are the roles and responsibilities

of an artist, designer, scientist or businessman?

of synthetic biology, genetic engineering,

and how are they shaping our notions of what it means to be a human?

What are the implications of this on society, on evolution

My own speculative design research at the current moment

I'm obsessed with olfaction as a design space,

of what if you could take a smell selfie, a smelfie?

What if you could take your own natural body odor

Funny enough, I found that this was a 19th century Austrian tradition,

where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple

crammed under their armpit during dances,

the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit,

Famously, Napoleon wrote many love letters to Josephine,

but perhaps amongst the most memorable is this brief and urgent note:

Both Napoleon and Josephine adored violets.

and Napoleon sent her a bouquet of violets

picked some of those flowers, entombed them in a locket

I thought, could I engineer that violet to smell just like Josephine?

you could smell Josephine just as Napoleon loved her?

After all, we've engineered transgenic crops

crops that taste sugary sweet but resist pests,

sometimes at the expense of nutritional value.

Can we harness these same technologies for an emotionally sensitive output?

I'm researching questions like, what makes a human smell like a human?

And it turns out it's fairly complicated.

Factors such as your diet, your medications, your lifestyle

And I found that our sweat is mostly odorless,

that's responsible for your smells, your mood, your identity

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TEDx】感官的合成生物學| Ani Liu | TEDxBeaconStreet (【TEDx】Synthetic biology for the senses| Ani Liu | TEDxBeaconStreet)

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