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Architecture that repairs itself.


venice, is sinking. to save it, rachel armstrong says we need to outgrow made of inert materials and, well, make that grows itself.



she proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon.

via ted – ideas worth spreading

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