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In a recently published article titled “Homo Politicus meets Homo Ludens: Public participation in serious life science games” published in the journal “Public Understanding of Science”, the authors attempt to find out whether, and to what extent, public participation can be realized via dedicated science gamification. The article, written by…
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The next BIO·FICTION on Tour event takes place in Instanbul, Turkey on the 18th of June 2016 at the Orient-Institute Instanbul. Here some information about the event location: The Orient-Institut Istanbul is an independent Turcological and area studies research institute of the Max Weber Foundation. Much of their work is…
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Biofaction will contribute to a Science & Society Session jointly organized by the projects “Gene Technology Report” and the Annual Theme 2015|16 “Leibniz: The Task of Visions” of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Second Conference on Xenobiology. Wednesday, 25 May 2016 / 6 pm Berlin-Brandenburg…
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Synthetic Biology – visions of the future SYNENERGENE Forum 24-25th June 2016 Amsterdam The SYNENERGENE Forum is a large public event which will discuss the promises and implications of synthetic biology from a societal perspective. Synthetic biology From the beginning of this century synthetic biology has emerged as a new…
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Our BIO·FICTION Science Art and Film Festival started tremendously into the new year 2016. On 23rd of January, BIO·FICTION was hosted by the Center for Contemporary Culture Barcelona (CCCB) as part of their “Human+” exhibition. The film screening was followed-up by a panel discussion with Núria Conde (biologist), Arturo Fuentes (scientist and cineast)…
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Markus Schmidt of BIOFACTION will be in Irvine beginning of February as part of the symposium panel below. Gene Editing, Artificial Life and Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium presented by The Newkirk Center for Science and Society, the Beall Center for Art + Technology and the Center for Complex Biological Systems taking…
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The „Prototype Nature“ symposium was initiated by the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Oberhausen and the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, in order to learn from the enormous diversity of nature and to ascertain how this knowledge can help meet the challenges of the today’s world. How should our coexistence look like?…
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Final Opinion on Synthetic Biology III: Risks to the environment and biodiversity related to synthetic biology and research priorities in the field of synthetic biology Co-authored by Dr Markus Schmidt. Read the notes by clicking below:
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Synthetische Biologie: Zwischen Fiktion und Realität. Interview mit Dr. Markus Schmidt über das BIO·FICTION Science Art Film-Festival (23.–25. Oktober 2014, Wien, Österreich) mitTATuP – Zeitschrift des ITAS zur Technikfolgenabschätzung. Die pdf Version des Interviews finden Sie hier. Synthetische Biologie: Zwischen Fiktion und Realität Interview mit Dr. Markus Schmidt über das…
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We are happy to see Biofaction’s film production ‘Synthetic Biology in Europe’ featured and reviewed on SciViews recently: Find below review (in German) as seen on SciViews: Ingenieure und der Baukasten der Zelle Die synthetische Biologie befasst sich damit, wie man biologische Zellen plant und konstruiert – und lässt…
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