Abstract

Beneath a designer’s curiosity towards biotechnology lies, all the more, a preoccupation concerning the evolution of our societies, both in the way they function and in the way they are equipped. This neo-Darwinian view is a means to change our conventions, conferring on biodesign the capacity to bring forward an analysis of politics and its power relations. Michael Burton’s, Michiko Nitta’s as well as Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s projects highlight the following dilemma: either we keep on the conservatives’ and the ecologists’ path, or we take that of synthetic biology. Following this second option, the proposed denunciation strategies lay down a disputed phenomenological relation, which, once experienced through those new representations, helps measuring, understanding and reshaping our social reality.