Rachel Armstrong
Architect & Futurist | Sustainable City Design
Most recently at TED in 2009.
About
Rachel Armstrong is an architect, scientist, and futurist who explores how living technologies can help transform our cities. As a Professor of Experimental Architecture at the University of Greenwich, she pioneers new approaches to sustainable urban design.
Armstrong's acclaimed TED talks have reached millions, showcasing how biology-inspired innovations can create resilient, adaptable buildings and infrastructure. Her keynotes empower city planners and policymakers to rethink the future of the built environment.
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Architecture that repairs itself?
Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.
1 talk, all in 2009
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