Laura Maria Gonzalez

Laura Maria Gonzalez is an architect and multidisciplinary designer whose work spans the fields of generative design, computation, synthetic biology, and additive manufacturing. She is a research collaborator at the MIT Media Lab in the Community Biotechnology initiative and a teaching fellow in the Department of Architecture at MIT. Her current work leverages emerging technologies in computation and synthetic biology to design and fabricate living materials that address the environmental impact of the building sector - opening a dialogue between humans and microorganisms.