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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-serving-library-liverpool-bi
 ennial-2018-self-repairing-cities-mark-miodownik/
SUMMARY:The Serving Library: The Serving Library: Liverpool Biennial 2018: 
 Self-Repairing Cities – Mark Miodownik
DESCRIPTION:Self-Repairing Cities – Mark Miodownik\n\nA talk by Mark Miod
 ownik (Professor of Materials and Society\, University College London) cu
 rated by The Serving Library in partnership with LJMU’s Exhibition Rese
 arch Lab for Liverpool Biennial 2018\n\n\nAs a result of our greater under
 standing of matter\, the distinction between animate and inanimate is now 
 becoming blurred\, ushering in a new materials age. Bionic people with syn
 thetic organs\, bones and even brains are becoming a reality. Just as we a
 re becoming more synthetic\, so our man-made environment is changing to be
 come more lifelike: buildings\, objects and materials that heal themselves
  are being developed. This talk will review the science behind these new a
 nimate material technologies and considers whether a particular goal\, tha
 t of creating self-repairing cities\, is achievable.\n\nMark Miodownik (b.
 1969) is a materials engineer and Professor of Materials and Society at Un
 iversity College London\, where he directs the Institute of Making. His cu
 rrent research interests are animate materials\, innovative manufacturing 
 and sensoaesthetic materials. He has written for The Observer\, The Tim
 es\, The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian\, and is a regular presen
 ter of science and engineering TV programmes on BBC. His New York Times 
 bestselling book Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Mat
 erials that Shape Our Man-made World won the 2014 Royal Society Winton Pr
 ize for Science Books.\n\nJoin us from 6pm for drinks and conversation ahe
 ad of a prompt 6.30pm start.\n\nThis event is part of the public programme
  for Liverpool Biennial 2018\, which includes a series of talks by leadin
 g thinkers and artists in response to the question Beautiful world\, wher
 e are you?
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