Dr. Rachel Armstrong, MA [Cantab] BMBCh [Oxon]

Dr. Rachel Armstrong is leading the Hylozoic Ground team in developing its ground-breaking 'Living Architecture' chemical circulation systems. She is a Global TED Fellow, Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and member of Professor Neil Spiller’s AVATAR Research Group. Armstrong is an interdisciplinary practitioner with a background in medicine who collaborates extensively with artists, scientists and architects to create new experimental spaces that re-engage with the fundamental creativity of science.

Dr. Armstrong emphasizes the unique role that architecture occupies within the cultural imagination, offering an ideal forum to reimagine our experience of the world so that we can reinvent our role within it. Her highly acclaimed research on building systems demonstrates how buildings can share properties of living systems.