Simon Trancart

Simon Trancart is co-founder of Altar, a company that uses natural selection to develop micro-organisms whose level of performance is compatible with their profitable exploitation in sustainable processes. He is currently responsible for adaptive evolution in the laboratories of Ginkgo BioKorks, a subsidiary of Altar.

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Aurélie Mossé, Marie-Sarah Adenis, Simon Trancart

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Living matter

With Marie Sarah Adenis, artist, Aurélie Mossé, research professor at ENSAD, and Simon Trancart, Head of Adaptative Laboratory Evolution at Ginkgo BioWorks. Wood is often referred to as a living material because it reacts to ambient humidity and develops a patina. However, when a tree is cut down to exploit its wood, it dies and ceases to photosynthesise. What other forms of living matter can we cultivate and grow to build and create, and what ethics should we apply? What does the future hold for organic materials that can regenerate rapidly or perhaps never die and continue to evolve as living matter? From the colourimetric properties of microbes to the use of algae to develop alternative chemical reactions to form cements and ceramics that emit less carbon, what possibilities does living matter offer us for rethinking creation?

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