Isabelle Guo
BSc Neuroscience
BLUE Residency
2025
BioTopia: Building sci-fi worlds to guide future biological thinkers
BLUE Residency
Winter
2025

Background

Life imitates art: science fiction novels and media relating to the advent of AI, advanced computing and robotics, and space exploration have helped conceptualise and critique new scientific ideas, as well as generate intellectual frameworks. My proposed project would explore the biological future in the form of creative writing (novella) and visual arts. Biotopia (placeholder name) is a sci-fi story taking place in a world on the tail end of a biological revolution, striving to eliminate disease and generate synthetic lifeforms that assist human needs. It aims to explore how society would restructure itself with such technologies available, and how human nature (both molecular and behaviour) would change with access to this newfound power over life on a micro and macro scale. It will follow a principal cast of seven characters of wavering morality, and question their perceptions of disease, normalcy, health, and the rigidity of biological nature.

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