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NURTURE: The Substitute, a computer-generated animation of extinct male northern white rhino, 2019 (presented at full scale in exhibition); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (British and South African) with The Mill (London); sound by Chris Timpson, Aurelia Sound Works (London); Maya, Unreal Engine, Illustrator, Aftereffects, Reaper ProTools, Blue Ripple, Universal Audio; commissioned by Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Cube design museum; © Cooper Hewitt.

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NURTURE: Nanobionic Plant Project: Ambient Illumination, plants as light sources, 2016-ongoing; Michael Strano, Seon-Yeong Kwak, Pavlo Gordichuk, MIT Chemical Engineering, and Sheila Kennedy, Ben Widger, Anne Graziano, Jeffrey Landman, Karaghen Hudson, Zain Karsan, and Patrick Weber, MIT Architecture, Cambridge, MA, and KVA, Boston; © photo, MIT Prof. S. Kennedy & Prof. M. Strano Research Groups.

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REMEDIATE: model of proposed building wall; proposed actual components: glass, metal, plastic, milkweed, monarch butterflies, larvae; Monarch Sanctuary, 2018-ongoing; Mitchell Joachim and Vivian Kuan, Terreform ONE, Brooklyn, NY;; © photo Terreform ONE.

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REMEDIATE: Babylegs, 2017-2019; device for removing microplastic pollution; Max Liboiron, CLEAR (Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action), St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada; plastic bottle, nylon stockings, rope; © Cooper Hewitt.

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REMEDIATE: Totomoxtle, 2017-ongoing; veneer made from husks, endangered varieties of Mexican corn; Fernando Laposse with Delfino Martinez, Lucia Herrera, and Noé Leon; courtesy © Fernando Laposse.

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REMEDIATE: Nacadia Therapy Forest Garden, Hoersholm Arboretum, Hoersholm, Denmark, 2011-ongoing; Ulrika K. Stigdotter, University of Copenhagen; © photo by Ulrik Sidenius.

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AUGMENT: Site photo, Tree of 40 Fruit, 2008-ongoing; cultivar tree with grafts; Sam van Aken; courtesy Sam van Aken and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts; © Syracuse University Photo and Imaging Center.

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AUGMENT: Aguahoja, 2017-2019; Chitosan, cellulose, pectin, acetic acid, glycerin, water; Neri Oxman (Israeli, active USA), The Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA).

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AUGMENT: Installation photo, Fantasma, 2019; glowing transgenic silk; AnotherFarm (Tokyo) with National Agricultural and Research Organization (Tsukuba, Japan) and Hosoo (Kyoto, Japan); photo Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.

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AUGMENT: Tranceflora, 2015-2019; glowing transgenic silk; AnotherFarm (Tokyo) with National Agricultural and Research Organization (Tsukuba, Japan) and Hosoo (Kyoto, Japan); © photo by So Morimoto.

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FACILITATE: Installation view, Project Coelicolor, Terroir 001 (textile), Assemblage 002 (dust coat); silk and streptomyces coelicolor pigment; Natsai Audrey Chieza and firm Faber Futures, 2019; photo Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.

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FACILITATE: Biocement Bricks, 2017-ongoing; aggregate, bacteria, nutrients, water, nitrogen, calcium; Ginger Krieg Dosier, bioMASON, Durham, NC; © bioMASON.

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