Video Title: (Humanity Plus Uk 2010 - Rachel Armstrong 02 Of 03) Video Duration: 9:36 From: humanityplusuk Category: Science and Technology dr rachel armstrong is a writer, multimedia producer, television presenter, arts collaborator and general medical pracioner specializing in non-darwinian techniques of evolution and the challenges of the extra-terrestrial environment. she regards the discipline of architecture as holding a unique place in the cultural imagination being simultaneously iconic and personal, and which offers an ideal forum to engage with and reimagine our experience of the world so that we can reinvent our role within it. she is a teaching fellow at the bartlett and member of professor neil spillers avatar research group, developing a new architectural methodology called systems architecture, which is which is the study of complexity within the discipline of the built environment that enables the convergence of the nano-bio-info-cogno technologies and extends from the macroscale flow of information to the micro scale organization of building materials. she has worked as a technical tutor at the bartlett school of architecture with students exploring the connections between biology, medicine and architecture. she was technical advisor to international performance artists such as orlan and stelarc on projects that explored the possibilities and implications of extreme anatomical and biotechnical modification and is the author and producer of a large range of multimedia projects and digital medical programmes ranging from printed literature to virtual reality and the internet. her first ltbgt...lt bgt Tags: "Most Discussed", Rachel "rachel maddow", "rachel mcadams", "rachel ray show", "rachel zoe", "rachel bilson", "rachel weisz", "rachel uchitel", "rachel glandorf", "rachel allen", Rachel Armstrong Protocells Humanity Plus Luke Mason David Wood Transhumanism Synthetic Cells 2010 Conference Humanism