Sheffield Hallam University

PROJECTS 2022

The Bunny with the Synthetic Heart

Bsmah Sheshtar, Charmi Sheth

The project questions the ethics of pet keeping by speculating on a possible future where humans produce synthetic, insentient pets.

InstructorS 2022

Noémie Soula is an emerging design researcher, who has recently graduated from MA Material Futures, Central Saint Martins, UAL. Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary, interweaving life sciences, storytelling, and design, and focuses on exploring alternative futuristic scenarios. She mainly explores biotechnologies, biology, and the human body to engage the audience in current bioethical, bio-political, and social discussions. Investigating the world through the crossing of disciplines thanks to active collaborations with experts and scientists, Soula speculates and creates future scenarios stimulating the audience's imagination. By playing with the visceral and the liminality between reality and fiction, the created artworks, physical or digital, seek to engage a larger public into current and future uses of biotechnologies. She is currently working as a design research assistant at Lab4Livng.

Daz Richardson: Visual Communication