Comments on: Chaos and Control http://liveness.org/plasticfutures/chaos-and-control/ architecture, innovation and the biotech era Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christina http://liveness.org/plasticfutures/chaos-and-control/comment-page-1/#comment-3798 Christina Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:42:27 +0000 http://liveness.org/plasticfutures/?p=1861#comment-3798 "when and how one gets to be fanciful or frankenstinian? how long does it take before you can slap few things together and just see what happens? Or does this ever happen ? Is biological experimentation too dangerous to play with in that way ?" For me, it took six years of coursework, three years of full-time labwork, and a really creative, supportive and permissive mentor to finally feel like I am able to play with science and genes and throw things together and see what happens. I think that it does happen eventually in even the most structured and strict research programs as well, the point when you can synthesize the work of others, understand the techniques and tools, have a strong intuition about how biology works, and make the creative leap to make your own hypotheses and experiments. The idea of creativity in science and experimental design is a very interesting one, and becoming more and more interesting now with synthetic biology and the involvement of artists! Anyway, I love the blog and this work is fascinating, I'm so curious to see what you all come up with! :) “when and how one gets to be fanciful or frankenstinian? how long does it take before you can slap few things together and just see what happens? Or does this ever happen ? Is biological experimentation too dangerous to play with in that way ?”

For me, it took six years of coursework, three years of full-time labwork, and a really creative, supportive and permissive mentor to finally feel like I am able to play with science and genes and throw things together and see what happens. I think that it does happen eventually in even the most structured and strict research programs as well, the point when you can synthesize the work of others, understand the techniques and tools, have a strong intuition about how biology works, and make the creative leap to make your own hypotheses and experiments. The idea of creativity in science and experimental design is a very interesting one, and becoming more and more interesting now with synthetic biology and the involvement of artists! Anyway, I love the blog and this work is fascinating, I’m so curious to see what you all come up with! :)

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