uncube's editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer, Rob Wilson and Elvia Wilk; editorial assistance: Susie S. Lee and Leigh Theodore Vlassis; graphic design: Lena Giovanazzi; graphics assistance: Madalena Guerra. uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany's most-read online magazine covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.
In this, our most speculative issue yet, we dip into the world of biohacking and wetlabs and consider the idea of the “soft machine” in terms of biomimetic architecture and synthetic biology – humans either mimicking or reverse-engineering nature.
Forget any Burroughs-esque ideas of soft machines as singular entities (that’s so twentieth century) or Man vs. Nature (so Hemingway). Tomorrow’s world will see humans merged with nature and ecosystem integration. That, say our featured experts, implies increased complexity, interdisciplinarity – and total system restructure.
Get back to nature.
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Cover photo: Johanna Schmeer, “Bioplastic Fantastic”, 2014. (Photo: Christian Schmeer)
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