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 Fri, Feb.18, 011 - University of Hasselt [BE]
+Some quotes from Keynote speaker Ignace Schops (landscaping expert, herpetologist; International Ambassador of Biodiversity).
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+Tourism is one of the biggest threats for nature."
+A sustainable civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they never will sit...
 === Designing Nature ===
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 Curated by Karen Verschooren
 till March 13, 2011 - http://www.z33.be/en/projects/alter-nature-we-can
+**Body / Art / Bioethics** - A SymbioticA Symposium exploring the culture and ethics of the use and ownership of living material, from the cell to the whole body, in art, science, law and philosophy. Universtity of Western Australia, Perth. August 6, 2010. - http://www.bodyartbioethics.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/#catherine
 **Certified Copy** - An exhibition on the notions of copying and cloning at Verbeke Foundation [BE] till April 10, 2011- http://ornamism.com/2010/
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 __Research__
-**Biopolitics** - Professor Catherine Waldby. Director of the Biopolitics of Science research network, Sydney University.
-One of research areas is a feminist-Marxist critique of the distribution and use of parts of bodies, classified as “gift” or “waste” - http://sydney.edu.au/arts/biopolitics_science.
+**Arts & Genomics Centre/ BioArts** - a multidisciplinary platform led by Prof.dr. R. Zwijnenberg that "...attempts to expand the public debate on (future) goals, means, possibilities and use of results of genomics, from the specific point of view of bio-genetic art and develop tools for drawing in new audiences." Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (Hol) - http://www.artsgenomics.org/
+**Biopolitics / Human Tissue Economies** - Prof. Catherine Waldby. Director of the Biopolitics of Science research network, Sydney University. - One of her research areas is a feminist-Marxist critique of the distribution and use of parts of bodies, classified as “gift” or “waste” - http://sydney.edu.au/arts/biopolitics_science.
 **Center for Environmental Studies** (Centrum voor Milieukunde- CMK); University of Hasselt [BE]
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 **Garreau, Joel** (2005) Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human - Doubleday Publishers. http://www.garreau.com/main.cfm?action=book&id=2
-**Human Tissue Economies**
 **Photosynthesizing bacteria** - "Dawn of Plantimals. Could a fish with built-in photosynthetic bacteria help feed the world?" Debora MacKenzie and Michael Le Page, NewScientist, December 2010, Volume 208, #2790. Pp 33-35. Featuring Christina Agapakis' research (Harvard Medical School) and experiment on injecting photosynthetic bacteria into the eggs of zebrafish.