Ashley's Story
Using slime mold to drive conversations about equity
Ashley Jane Lewis is a Creative Technologist who educates people about equitable distribution using slime mold, a multicellular and single cellular yellow biological culture. In collaboration with Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, she's developed the Slime Tech Lab, a mobile science lab that explores new futures through science, technology, and storytelling. Together they have built new technological components that track slime mold movement to highlight how it sends nourishment and where it needs it most, similar to when communities come together to provide assistance and mutual aid. Learn how Ashley is changing tech with science to facilitate open conversations about important issues like inequity.
"It's the idea of using your knowledge and your exsiting material and banding together with community to create the ecosystem that you want because you cannot rely on the major structure, political structure, medical structure, technological structure to have your back, to keep you safe and to keep you protected."
-- Ashley Jane Lewis
New Media Artist and Creative Technologist
New Media Artist and Creative Technologist
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