Dr. Rachel Armstrong is an interdisciplinary practitioner with a background in medicine who has collaborated extensively with artists, scientists, and architects in creating a new experimental space to explore scientific concepts and re-engage with the fundamental creativity of science.
She regards the discipline of architecture as holding a unique place in the cultural imagination, being simultaneously iconic and personal, which offers an ideal forum to engage with and re-imagine our experience of the world so that we can reinvent our role within it. Her research 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. Armstrong is a Senior TED Fellow, Co-Director of Architecture & Synthetic Biology at AVATAR (Advanced Virtual And Technological Architectural Research Group), and Visiting Research Assistant at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark.
