*this is a Speculative Design project.
What is ‘Speculative Design’?

Synthetic biology might create new product lines and jobs such as the travelling bio-home nurse, bio-manufacturing and bio-design jobs, and sub-fields like 'Vessel System Architect(ure)', 'Tissue Manufacturing Engineer(ing)', 'Bio-Preservation Technicians', and so on.  This video is a small cross-sectional slice of that world, to prompt us to think of the pros and cons before they unfold.

Hand of Gaia is a fictitious home-maintenance company that specializes in fixing Bio-Home systems and appliances. The video below is a day in the life of a bio-home nurse.

We associate bio-engineering with medicine and human health, but with advances in printing tissue (1) (2) (3) applications can be very broad. Instead of HVAC systems that are completely electro-mechanical for instance, could we have some components be biological? biological systems are optimized by evolution to a degree that electro-mechanical systems cannot achieve.
 

 peculative Design projects - such as this film - work as problem-finding methods, rather than problem-solving.

To me, the primary goal, or metric of success, is the degree of discussion and depth of engagement it may create. They are design projects that target citizens and practitioners, not consumers, and that imagine narratives of consumption, not of production.
I would like to mention additional thanks to Paolo Cardini, Agi Haines, Chris Woebken, and my entire class whose continuous feedback helped me find my critical points and shape them into a short film.