Ferment TV is an experimental space for virtual gatherings by Ginkgo Bioworks that foregrounds emerging ideas from some of the world’s leading scientists, industry leaders, designers, artists, and thinkers–all operating at the intersection of biology, technology, and society. A collaboration with Kit McDonnell and Faber Futures.
visions for biotech
In our first Ferment TV conversation, I speak with Lisa Kay Solomon, a renowned thought leader, educator and expert on business leadership and culture design, and Dr. Megan J. Palmer, the Executive Director of Bio Policy & Leadership Initiatives at Stanford University about future visions for biotech in a post-COVID-19 society.
Food futures
A conversation featuring Dr. Arielle Johnson, Selassie Atadika, and Dr. Sudeep Agarwala, mapping connections between microbial, sensorial, and decolonial food systems.
The social life of pandemics
A conversation between Dr. Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Dr. Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, examining the role of race, racism, and misinformation in the COVID-19 pandemic.
must we revolutionize nothing?
Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist working across nature, science and technology, investigating the human impulse to “better” the world. Dr Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist and Professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, president of the BioBricks Foundation, and co-founder of iGEM. In this conversation we explore the potential for more-than-human flourishing and how to challenge the structural limitations to the futures we want.