Journal papers

2023

Luis Hernan & Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa (2023) A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley, Architecture and Culture.

2022

Hernan, Luis and Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, A Luminous Abstraction: 5G Narratives and Futuring Otherwise, Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 7, no. 3 (2022), https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/a-luminous-abstraction-5G-narratives

Pschetz, L., Ramirez-Figueroa, C., and Revans, J. (2022) Learning from creative biology: Promoting transdisciplinarity through vocabularies of practice, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain

2021

Luis Hernan & Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa (2021) Time is out of Joint: Digital Domesticity and Magical Realism, Journal of Architectural Education, 75:2, 184-191

2020

Ramirez-Figueroa C, Beckett R (2020), Living with buildings, living with microbes. Probiosis and architecture, Architectural Research Quarterly, Cambridge University Press

Ramirez-Figueroa C, Hernan L, Lin, P (2020). Living Ashes: Associated Milieus and Distributed Agencies. Special Number on Microperformativity, Performance Research, Routledge

2014

Dade-Robertson M., Ramirez-Figueroa C. and Zhang M. (2014) Material Ecologies for Synthetic Biology: Bio-mineralization and the state space of design. Computer Aided Design, Special Edition on Material Ecology Design and Computational Issues

Dade-Robertson M., Ramirez-Figueroa C. and Zhang M. (2014). Radical Vernacular: Bacterial Architecture on Mars. JBIS: Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 67.

Book chapters

2020

Ramirez-Figueroa C, Watt T. (2020), Despite the optimistic predictions for the Design of Care, what does the doing of care really do? in Does Design Care...?! (ed. Rodgers P, Bremmer C, Innella G). Lancaster University ISBN: 978-1-86220-372-3.

2019

Ramirez-Figueroa C. (2019), P is for Puzzlement in An Illustrated* A to Z for the Design of Care (ed. Rodgers P, Bremmer C, Innella G). Lancaster University.

Beckett, R., Nair, S., Ramirez-Figueroa C. (2019), NOTBAD in Design Research for Change 2019 (ed. Rodgers P, Bremmer C, Innella G). Lancaster University. ISBN: 978-1-86220-363-1.

Refereed conference papers and workshops

2023

Gizem Oktay, Yuta Ikeya, Minha Lee, Bahareh Barati, Youngsil Lee, Yuning Chen, Larissa Pschetz, and Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa. 2023. Designing with the more-than-human: Temporalities of thinking with care. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ‘23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 104–106.

2022

Välk, S. et al. (2022). Narratives in Biodesign – Bridging Methods, Processes and Tools. In: Bruyns, G., Wei, H. (eds) [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes. IASDR 2021. Springer, Singapore.

2021

Phillip Gough, Jack Forman, Pat Pataranutaporn, Leigh-Anne Hepburn, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Clare Cooper, Angela Vujic, David Sun Kong, Raphael Kim, Pattie Maes, Hiroshi Ishii, Misha Sra, and Naseem Ahmadpour. 2021. Speculating on Biodesign in the Future Home. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 77, 1–5.

Phillip Gough, Larissa Pschetz, Naseem Ahmadpour, Leigh-Anne Hepburn, Clare Cooper, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, and Oron Catts. 2020. The Nature of Biodesigned Systems: Directions for HCI. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’ 20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 389–392.

Hernan, L. and Ramirez-Figueroa, C. (2021) Domesticity and digital eugenics: design cultures of Silicon Valley. In:Design Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021, Volume #2. , pp. 4542-4550.

Ramirez-Figueroa, C. and Hernan, L. (2021) Bio-revolutions : radical change, design cultures and non-humans. In: Design Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021, Volume #2, pp. 1208-1221.

2018

Ramirez-Figueroa C., Hernan L., Pei-Ying L., The biological unseen: producing and mediating imaginaries of protocells In: The Latent Image 2018, 5th international conference on trandisciplinary imaging at the intersection of art, science and culture, April 2018 Edinburgh

Hernan L, Ramirez-Figueroa C., The technological invisible: image making as an exercise of power In: The Latent Image 2018, 5th international conference on trandisciplinary imaging at the intersection of art, science and culture, April 2018, Edinburgh

2017

Dade-Robertson M., Ramirez-Figueroa C. and Hernan L. (2017) Bio-materialism: Experiments in biological material computation In: New Disciplines of Making – Shared Knowledge in Doing: Research through Design Conference. March 2017, Edinburgh

2016

Ramirez-Figueroa C., Hernan L., Guyet A. and Dade-Robertson M. (2016) Bacterial Hygromorphs: material proxies as design pedagogy to engage with living technologies. In: ACADIA 16: Posthuman Frontiers [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).

Dade-Robertson M., Mitrani H., Wipat A., Zhang M., Corral J., Ramirez-Figueroa C. and Hernan L. (2016) Thinking Soils: A Synthetic Biology approach to material based design computation. In: ACADIA 16: Posthuman Frontiers [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).

2013

Dade-Robertson M., Zhang M., Ramirez-Figueroa C., Hernan L., Beattie J., Lyon A., Ryden M. and Welford M. Proto-materials: Material Practices in Architecture at Molecular and Cellular Scales. In: Michael Stacey, ed. Prototyping Architecture. London: Building Centre Trust, 2013, pp.211-223. .

Ramirez-Figueroa C., Dade-Robertson M. and Zhang M. Synthetic Biology as a material design practice. In: Praxis and Poetics: Research through Design Conference. September 2013, Newcastle.

Ramirez-Figueroa C. and Dade-Robertson M. (2013) Adaptive Morphologies: Toward a Morphogenesis of Material Construction. In: ACADIA 13: Adaptive Architecture [Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).

2012

Ramirez-Figueroa C. and Dade-Robertson M. Recombinatorial personal spaces of knowledge. In Digital Research. 2012, Oxford, UK.