Team:Imperial College London/Human Practices/Panel Discussion

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Human practices has been a hugely important influence in the design of our final product. We contacted a number of experts very early on in the design process to allow us to truly adapt our specifications to meet the requirements of a field testing kit for parasites. This has ensured that our design is as feasible and useful as possible.
Interdisciplinary Human Practices Panel Discussion
This panel discussion was attended by a number of academics working in a variety of fields related to synthetic biology and the social sciences. It took place in our second week of iGEM, so we had only just decided what direction we wanted to go in. We would have liked to prepare more for it, but actually it was really important that it took place so early on in the concept of our project. This is because it allowed us to build our design based upon specifications that we decided on using the guidance of the panel.

We are very thankful to the following academics for their invaluable advice:

  1. Claire Marris, Senior Research Fellow at LSE (London School of Economics). Her comments and advice were really useful in deciding on our design specifications.
  2. David Benque, RCA (Royal College of Art). David suggested that we consider things we hadn't even thought of up until the discussion, such as social accebtibility and the aesthetics of our final design.
  3. Members of the CSynBI (Centre of Synthetic Biology and Innovation), including Susanna Finlay, Dr Geoff Baldwin, Professor Paul Freemont, Kirsten Jensen, Chris Hirst and James Chappell.


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Experts in variety of fields who challanged our ideas and made some really useful suggestions
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The team responding to questions raised by the panel
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