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Lana Prideaux-Remin z5015557

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FINAL PIECE - “PRO” 

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Final publication

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Final foetus

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Foetus development

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Bibliography

American Society of Plastic Surgeons, ASPS Website Terms and Conditions (2015) < http://www.plasticsurgery.org/terms-and-conditions.html> Last Accessed: 22/10/15

FutureForAll.org, Designer Babies (2015) <http://www.futureforall.org/bioengineering/designer-babies.html> Last Accessed: 22/10/15

Loria, K, Designer babies are coming — here's why some think that's a good thing (2015) <http://www.techinsider.io/why-we-should-allow-designer-babies-2015-8> Last Accessed: 21/10/15

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, David Pearce (2015) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pearce_(philosopher)> Last Accessed: 23/10/15

Women’s Bioethics Project Bookclub, The Science Behind ‘Designer Babies’<http://www.womensbioethics.org/index.php?p=The_Science_Behind_%93Designer_Babies%94&s=172> Last Accessed: 23/10/15

Youtube, British Institute of Posthuman Studies (2013), PostHuman: An Introduction to Transhumanism <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTMS9y8OVuY> Last Accessed: 23/10/15

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Back page, ‘terms and conditions’ of use of PRO

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Process of creating the ‘limbs’ section of our publication

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Designer babies are coming — here's why some think that's a good thing

Parents already make all kinds of decisions about the genetics of their child.

Interesting perspective on the positive aspects of genetic manipulation

‘eliminating a few disadvantages, or even tweaking the code to add a few extra benefits, like disease resistance or stronger muscles — is totally ethical, perhaps even a normal decision that we'll all make for our children in the future.’

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‘Designer babies’ debate should start, scientists say-

Rapid progress in genetics is making “designer babies” more likely and society needs to be prepared, leading scientists have told the BBC. Dr Tony Perry, a pioneer in cloning, has announced precise DNA editing at the moment of conception in mice. He said huge advances in the past two years meant “designer babies” were no longer HG Wells territory. Other leading scientists and bioethicists argue it is time for a serious public debate on the issue. Designer babies - genetically modified for beauty, intelligence or to be free of disease - have long been a topic of science fiction. Dr Perry, who was part of the teams to clone the first mice and pigs, said the prospect was still fiction, but science was rapidly catching up to make elements of it possible. In the journal Scientific Reports, he details precisely editing the genome of mice at the point DNA from the sperm and egg come together. Dr Perry, who is based at the University of Bath, told the BBC: “We used a pair of molecular scissors and a molecular sat-nav that tells the scissors where to cut. “It is approaching 100% efficiency already, it’s a case of ‘you shoot you score’.”

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interesting image taken from “The Ethics of Designer Babies” - (source)

“…within 10 years, they believe they’ll be able to change eye color and have an 80% accuracy rate. They also think that in the future they’ll be able to give the child “athletic abilities” or make them more academic…”

the future isn’t that far away

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Anatomically correct and labelled picture I used to help draw my cross-section

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Researching into cross sections of the skull, and I found I really liked the aesthetic of the Day of the Dead skulls. They are really quite creepy and disconcerting which I think would work well with our idea

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Christophe Gilland’s cross section of rabbit

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representations of futuristic babies

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3D Printing Helps Expectant Parents Meet Their Baby Before it’s Born

We have all probably read at least one of those amazing stories about doctors pre-planning dangerous and complicated surgeries using 3D printed models generated

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Here are some historical examples of experimental approaches to publications. 

1. April Greiman ‘does it make sense?’, design quarterly #133, 1986 

Greiman’s piece challenged existing notions of what a magazine should be. Rather than the standard thirty-two-page sequence, she reformatted the piece as a poster that folded out to almost three by six feet. On the front is an image of Greiman’s digitized, naked body amid layers of interacting images and text. On the back, colorful atmospheric spatial video images are interspersed with thoughtful comments and painstaking notations on the digital process—a virtual landscape of text and image. 

2, 3. Edward Ruscha, Every building on the Sunset Strip, 1966

In the 1960s, Ed Ruscha more or less reinvented the artist’s book. By turning away from the craftsmanship and luxury status that typified the livre d’artiste in favor of the artistic idea or concept, expressed simply through photographs and text, Ruscha opened the genre to the possibilities of mass-production and distribution. The 25-foot length of the accordion-folded Every Building on the Sunset Strip affords the viewer two continuous photographic views of the mile and a half section of this landmark stretch of Sunset, one for each side of one of the city’s landmark thoroughfare.- From 

4, 5. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France /Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France – by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk

Comprised of brightly colored arabesques, concentric circles, triangles, and rectangles, Delaunay-Terk’s pochoir illustrations for Blaise Cendrars’s poem and its radical format have made this a landmark in the history of the modern book. The poet and the artist conceived of this project as the first “simultaneous book.” When closed, the accordion-folded volume can be slipped into a wrapper. Opened out vertically, the format facilitates the contrast of the darker themes of the poem with the vibrant dynamism of the illuminations that accompany it.Written as a stream of consciousness, Cendrars’s poem alternates between his memories of a train trip across Siberia in 1904 and thoughts of his girlfriend, Jehanne. Complementing the rhythms of the poem, Delaunay-Terk interspersed patches of color with the poet’s staggered text, printed in twelve different fonts. The poem and the illustration both end with references to the Eiffel Tower and the ferris wheel, two architectural marvels of Paris at that time, further symbolizing modernity and the experiences of simultaneity that urban life provided. From 

Translation of the text 

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Detaching your finger

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teaching how to detach your finger