作为麻省理工学院媒体实验室的研究人员和银杏生物耕作的创意居民，安德里亚·辛林（Andrea Shin Ling）研究了腐烂的科学：水分和热量等环境因素如何影响生物材料的分解。她的工作并不着重于防止这种生物材料衰减，而是要控制它，从而使物体以美观的方式随着时间的推移而变化。她说，她的工作是“如果我们利用分解过程的所有生物学优势，则是一个典型的典范。”大自然设计了分解和返回地球的材料。但是在人造的环境中，不再有目的的结构和物体变成了浪费，污染了我们的环境，海洋和身体。少于10％的塑料，木材，玻璃和金属被回收。Ling’s work, which earned top honors from the European Commission’s 2020 STARTS Prize and is scheduled to be exhibited later this year at Ars Electronica, in Linz, Austria, and Bozar, in Brussels, suggests a radical new possibility of controlling the decomposition of materials safely at scale. “Even as an architect, when your building is supposed to last hundreds of years, it is ultimately destined to break down,” Ling says. “My work is about exploring how we can use nature not just as a model, but also as a tool for design.”
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