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<h2 class="headlr"> Project Abstract</h2>
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<p>Super Cell is a project developed for the iGEM competition 2010. It is a <b>fictional online supermarket<b/> offering speculative products, which are all based on <b>Synthetic Biology</b>. By putting already existing and far-out future applications next to each other in a webshop, the projects aims to improve public awareness about Synthetic Biology and at the same time, foster a debate on how we want to see it manifested in our everyday lives. Implications of <b>Biotechnologies</b> are usually discussed on a philosophical, ethical, legal or maybe religious level. All of these areas share a pretty abstract perspective on the matter. By designing speculative products and presenting them in a familiar environment such as a webshop, we aim to create tangible manifestations which will allow specialists and non-specialists to engage in a discussion about desired and undesired implications of Synthetic Biology. If we, as a society, want to influence how this powerful science will affect our future lives, this kind of discussion is essential to have now.</p>
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<p>Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. Our goal is to make possible everyday applications and implications tangible by translating them into products that could fill the supermarket shelfs. Through this we hope to foster a discussion about Synthetic Biology that includes different scientific disciplines as well as the general public.  <a href="https://2010.igem.org/Team:Weimar-Heidelberg_Arts/Project">Read more...</a></p>
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<h2> Synthetic <br/> Supermarket</h2>
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In the Super Cell webshop (see image on the right) each product is presented using one or more pictures, a product description, and a technical description, giving insights into the actual technical feasibility. The project is interested in possible implications of Synthetic Biology in our near future, therefor the website employs video and text comments. These are partly provided by the team itself as a means to think about everyday consequences and to enrich the narrative aspect of the products. Of course the commenting function is also available to visitors on our website to express their imagined interactions with our products.
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Super Cell comes as a supermarket website, offering around 20 products which are all designed by our iGEM team. The products range from very believable applications to more speculative and ethically or culturally challenging. <a href="https://2010.igem.org/Team:Weimar-Heidelberg_Arts/Products">Have a look...</a>
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For more information about the products click on <i>Project</i> in the menu above.
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The Project is a collaboration between students of Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar and students of Molecular Biotechnology, Biology, Philosophy and Psychology of Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg. Our products are developed in collaboration between science students from Heidelberg and Art and Design students from Weimar. <a href="https://2010.igem.org/Team:Weimar-Heidelberg_Arts/Collaboration">See how we got along...</a>
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Latest revision as of 19:38, 27 October 2010

Project Abstract

Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. Our goal is to make possible everyday applications and implications tangible by translating them into products that could fill the supermarket shelfs. Through this we hope to foster a discussion about Synthetic Biology that includes different scientific disciplines as well as the general public. Read more...

Synthetic
Supermarket

Super Cell comes as a supermarket website, offering around 20 products which are all designed by our iGEM team. The products range from very believable applications to more speculative and ethically or culturally challenging. Have a look...

The Collaboration

The Project is a collaboration between students of Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar and students of Molecular Biotechnology, Biology, Philosophy and Psychology of Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg. Our products are developed in collaboration between science students from Heidelberg and Art and Design students from Weimar. See how we got along...

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