Creatures Archives - Grow by Ginkgo

32 Articles

Essay

Multicultures

The allure of engineering microbial polyculture networks

Q&A

Hacking Trees

Interview

There’s Nothing Unnatural About a Computer

By Claire L. Evans

Dialogue

Unexceptional Mammals

By Shannon Odell

Histories

Consider the Moth

By Katy Kelleher

Dialogue

When Robots Multiply

Futures

Artificial Animals

By Claire L. Evans

Essay

The Last Kingdom

Essay

A Feeling for the Organism

By Claire L. Evans

Review

The Highbrow Neanderthal

By Dean Kissick

Futures

The Digital Jungle

By Claire L. Evans

Illustration of the Great Argus twirling around. Colorful orbs and feathers surround a small blue head peeking out in the center.

Histories

Wings of Desire

By Dean Kissick

Photograph from a bird's eye view of fire spreading through a forest. The burning trees appear like candlesticks from afar, and white smoke hovers over the scene.

Reportage

Anatomy of an Underground Wildfire

By Kaitlin Sullivan

A brain organoid, photographed with greens, pinks, and magentas and suspended against a black background

Dialogue

The Lab Philosopher

By Christina Agapakis

Illustration of a slime mold with colorful "aural" packets interspersed within its network. A sketched human in the corner looks on

Futures

Beyond Smart Rocks

By Claire L. Evans

A photograph of a xenobot under a microscope

Dialogue

Is DNA Hardware or Software?

By Christina Agapakis

Futures

The Loneliest Creature in the World

Illustration of chestnut trees scattered throughout the scene, some with and without colored dots.

Essay

The Nature of Nature

By Rowan Jacobsen