Manisha Laroia

The Darwin Kit, is a speculative artefact, an “at-home DNA self-editing kit”. Using the diegetic space of Speculative Ethics based on Dunne & Raby's 'Speculative Everything', the approach through the making was to explore the future technology of self-editing one's DNA and creating a space where it was introduced in the world. In the possible future, the Darwin Kit can be bought from gene-mapping companies. The user experience is for the participant to wear the disc and start the process on the tablet which guides them through a fictitious DNA editing interface. The designed artefact has a disc-wearable with an Adafruit CPX that is used to start a Processing sketch as shown in the tablet.