(I don’t know how the hell @LondonRealTV started following me, but thank god it did. I watched an episode before bed till 2am, and another at 10am once I woke up.)
“Time is a creative force that stops things from being irreversible The irreversibility of things is where creative opportunities lie.”
“Co-construct your future by bringing things together.”
“Science, technology and culture… work together… Attempting the unknown is creativity.”
“We should be very flexible about ‘what is a good idea?’.”
You would imagine that these quotes are from artists. In fact, they came from Dr Rachel Armstrong whose biography read as follows:
Rachel Armstrong is Co-Director of AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) in Architecture & Synthetic Biology at The School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, London. Senior TED Fellow, and Visiting Research Assistant at the Centre for Fundamental Living Technology, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark. Rachel is a sustainability innovator who investigates a new approach to building materials called ‘living architecture,’ that suggests it is possible for our buildings to share some of the properties of living systems. She collaboratively works across disciplines to build and develop prototypes that embody her approach.
She might have a biography of stuffs, but listen to her speak – she is just someone who is not boxed into the idea of “who I am, what I do”. Lively, explains science in a way that I can actually understand on a Sunday morning, hopelessly optimistic and just a generally exciting person.
Watch the video: http://www.londonreal.tv/episodes/dr-rachel-armstrong-earths-bright-future/