Abstract

Today, a new kind of design is emerging. Biodesign, indeed, refers to the use of living matter as a technology, when living organisms are essential components of the technology. These projects try to improve or upgrade technology or to make it evolve in a more sustainable way. Biotechnology is the use of living matter and organisms to develop or make products, to create new possibilities, new technologies. But what happens when technology meets living matter to create one entity? This article questions the ethical impacts of such projects through an overview of several projects in biodesign.