Biodesign : vers une relecture des rapports

Abstract

Beneath a designer’s curiosity towards biotechnology

lies, all the more, a preoccupation concerning

the evolution of our societies, both in the way they function

and in the way they are equipped. This neo-

Darwinian view is a means to change our conventions,

conferring on biodesign the capacity to bring forward an

analysis of politics and its power relations. Michael Burton’s,

Michiko Nitta’s as well as Alexandra Daisy

Ginsberg’s projects highlight the following dilemma:

either we keep on the conservatives’ and the ecologists’

path, or we take that of synthetic biology. Following this

second option, the proposed denunciation strategies lay

down a disputed phenomenological relation, which, once

experienced through those new representations, helps

measuring, understanding and reshaping our social reality.