James King, Daisy Ginsberg Tuur Van Balen and Michael Barton, designers-artists-technologists have recently graduated from the Royal College of Arts in London, and have followed the Cambridge iGEM2009 team over the summer, participating in the Synthetic Biology Crash Course.
James and Daisy have delivered their own workshops on design, human engagement and futurology. in addition, they have developed a parallel project, based on the team's production of bacterial pigments. In an imagined application, probiotics might be engineered to express different coloured pigments in response to different gut conditions or upsets....allowing self diagnosis of specific ailments by inspection of one's poo. James and Daisy attended the iGEM2009 Jamboree, bearing an aluminium case with a scatalog - a collection of coloured poo.
Be sure to see details of their parallel project at http://www.echromi.com/
See James' collection of images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesking/sets/72157620815624290/
See Daisy's collection of images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandradaisy/sets/72157622584099367/
See Daisy's blog at http://www.daisyginsberg.com/