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Nicholas Shapiro

Air: From Engineered Woods to Alter-engineered Worlds

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Engineered woods proliferated in the American home after WWII, conditioning indoor air with the allergen, irritant, neurotoxin, and known human carcinogen known as formaldehyde. This chemical bonds together modern architecture while biologically unraveling humans. The talk will track how shelter became a seat of exposure, and how the world might need to be alter-engineered to make the ‘necessary evils’ of these domestic chemicals unnecessary.

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