Alisa Andrasek is a principal of BIOTHING, operating at the intersection of design, material praxis, complex systems and computer science. She teaches at the Architectural Association and has taught at Columbia, Pratt, UPenn, RMIT Melbourne, RPI and UTS Sydney.  Biothing's award winning work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is included in permanent collections at the Centre Pompidou, FRAC Collection Orleans and TB-A21 Vienna. Amongst other events, she curated the East Coast US section for the Architectural Biennial Beijing (ABB) 2006 and 2008 and the UK section for ABB 2010, and Proto/e/co/logics symposium in Croatia 2011.

Within general condition of convergence of matter and information, Biothing operates at the intersection of material praxis and computation. The interconnectedness of natural, economic, political and technological systems makes the fixed entities improbable. In Biothing's design ecology, algorithmic intelligence is being encapsulated as series of proto-architectural entities capable of rewriting existing protocols of constructability and increasingly complexified conditions architecture needs to inhabit, including long inability to creatively address acute issue of ecology. Biothing's work spans across multiple orders of scale _ from product design and furniture applications to the heighten resolution fabric of architecture and adaptive patterns for urbanism.
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