WHAT’S IN A SEQUENCE and 001 BANK
Collaboration with Claire Matthews and Hi-Kyung Eun.
I What’s in a Sequence?
April 2020
II 001 Bank
Looking for Stigmergy
Febuary 2021
I What’s in a Sequence?
April 2020
II 001 Bank
Looking for Stigmergy
Febuary 2021
Recently, the global market for direct-to-consumer DNA testing kits,
which can provide insights into ancestry and genetic health, has boomed.
However, the businesses selling these services often harness customer
data in exploitative ways. In
the very near future it will be possible to fully sequence the
genetic information of any living organism on a mass scale, but how will
all this data be handled?
Part I - What’s in a Sequence
We’ve imagined a near future, where everyone’s genome is sequenced at birth and financially viable. The DNA data is stored by the individual, a public bank or a private bank and – when stored in a bank it gives access to an online payment system.
On the website we explored what issues and resolutions this scenario might bring, by showing different objects from the daily life of three different characters. The objects highlight how owning your own DNA sequence can affect everyday scenarios as well as bigger life decisions.
Part II - 001 Bank
The companies selling DNA hometests often co-opt DNA data in an exploitative way, without putting individuals' privacy, scientific or societal progress at its core, and without transparency about what third parties data is sold on.
By using the idea of the barcode, we rethink the idea of DNA data as a product. What if all life had its own DNA barcode, how could we use this knowledge to create a more connected world based on commoning and empathy instead of profit?
The short video considers an alternative to a centralised DNA system by imagining the 001 Bank, focusing more on the relations between species.
Part I - What’s in a Sequence
We’ve imagined a near future, where everyone’s genome is sequenced at birth and financially viable. The DNA data is stored by the individual, a public bank or a private bank and – when stored in a bank it gives access to an online payment system.
On the website we explored what issues and resolutions this scenario might bring, by showing different objects from the daily life of three different characters. The objects highlight how owning your own DNA sequence can affect everyday scenarios as well as bigger life decisions.
Part II - 001 Bank
The companies selling DNA hometests often co-opt DNA data in an exploitative way, without putting individuals' privacy, scientific or societal progress at its core, and without transparency about what third parties data is sold on.
By using the idea of the barcode, we rethink the idea of DNA data as a product. What if all life had its own DNA barcode, how could we use this knowledge to create a more connected world based on commoning and empathy instead of profit?
The short video considers an alternative to a centralised DNA system by imagining the 001 Bank, focusing more on the relations between species.