Where by some others may possibly find to reconstruct a woolly mammoth from generations-aged sequences, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is portion of an interdisciplinary venture to recreate the scents of plant species missing to human colonial destruction of their habitat. Ginsberg qualified in architecture and design, earning a PhD from the Style Interactions program at the Royal College of Art in London. For her art installation Resurrecting the Sublime, she collaborated with the scent researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas and the biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks. The installation has been revealed all around the earth, from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Structure Museum in New York to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and is at present on see at the 17th Intercontinental Architecture Exhibition in Venice.

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