Sketch 4: Peer Review for Meg Wiessner
Hi Meg, thanks for sharing your wishlist! It was a pleasure to read especially because your potential projects seem to be bound up around one cluster of problematics. Since I don't know much about all of this, I'd just like to inquire broadly about your projects on enviromental design/biodesign/etc: do you anticipate epochal shifts in the way these designs are executed, or your interpretations of them, in the next 50 years? Do you think there is an identifiable telos in the history of environmental design and its present practice so far? How do you reckon with the chronology that might be incidentally produced as you track these questions across time? Thanks again!
Sketch 2 - Peer Review for Dan Santos
Hi Dan, thanks so much for sharing your project! It sounds fascinating. Both of us are concerned with how our respective scientific industries of study become implicated in various political projects: for you, how biotechnology becomes an object of "democratization" through the involvement of various actors. You hinted at the different positive and critical takes of those many actors, but I'd love to learn more about the specific arguments and practices coming from people along those lines. What are their motivations behind these practices (such as FBI support) and why?