Laura Maria Gonzalez is an interdisciplinary designer and architect whose work includes design, computation, synthetic biology, and additive manufacturing. Laura will lead a 90-minute session at the Computational Design: NEXT 10 conference. Laura is presently a community biotechnology researcher at the MIT Media Lab. Her current research uses developing computational and synthetic biology technologies to design and create living materials that address the building sector’s environmental effect by encouraging a collaborative conversation between people and microbes. Laura previously worked as an architect at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in New York City and London.