TED学院 | 如何用科技来改造人体？

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TED简介：2012 | Lucy McRae是一位人体建筑师，她想像出了许多将生物科学和科技结合到人体的方法。在这个极具视觉冲击的演讲中，她展示了许多作品，从服装到对流行歌星Robyn的音乐视频中体内改造，再到一颗能让你吃下后就散发甜蜜香气的药片。

演讲者：Lucy McRae

片长：03：59

https://v.qq.com/txp/iframe/player.html?width=500&height=375&auto=0&vid=u0300e4kvqk

中英对照翻译

I call myself a body architect. I trainedin classical ballet and have a background in architecture and fashion. As abody architect, I fascinate with the human body and explore how I can transformit.

我自称为一名人体建筑师。我学过古典芭蕾，也有建筑以及时尚的相关背景。作为一个人体建筑师，我真的十分痴迷于人的身体以及我怎样才能改造它。

I worked at Philips Electronics in thefar-future design research lab, looking 20 years into the future. I exploredthe human skin, and how technology can transform the body. I worked on conceptslike an electronic tattoo, which is augmented by touch, or dresses that blushedand shivered with light. 

我现在就职于飞利浦电子公司的一个超前设计研究实验室，我们放眼于20年后的未来。我探索过人的皮肤，以及怎样用科技改造身体。我也研究过只通过触摸就可以搞定的电子纹身，还有可以用光装饰甚至打上碎花的裙子。

I started my own experiments. These were the low-techapproaches to the high-tech conversations I was having. These are Q-tips stuckto my roommate with wig glue.

我还整了个实验，这是我用很没技术含量的玩意儿弄出的看着很有技术含量的设计，其实就是棉棒加上假发胶贴到我室友身上。

I started a collaboration with a friend ofmine, Bart Hess -- he doesn't normally look like this -- and we used ourselvesas models. We transformed our apartments into our laboratories, and worked in avery spontaneous and immediate way. We were creating visual imagery provokinghuman evolution.

我还跟我的朋友，巴特·赫斯，合作过。他平常不是这样的——我们把自己当作模特，我们把我们的公寓改造成了实验室，这样就能相当随意地随时实验我们的新想法 。我们现在正在创作视觉图像来表现人类进化。

Whilst I was at Philips, we discussed thisidea of a maybe technology, something that wasn't either switched on or off,but in between. A maybe that could take the form of a gas or a liquid. And Ibecame obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so youcouldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started. 

同时，在飞利浦，我们正在讨论一个关于模糊科技的点子，我是说一种并不是很绝对的形态，一种可以以气态或液态为形式的可能性。然后我就对把身体的边界模糊化着了迷。在这种情况下，你无法知道皮肤与外界环境的具体分界线在哪里。

I set up mystudio in the red-light district and obsessively wrapped myself in plumbingtubing, and found a way to redefine the skin and create this dynamic textile. Iwas introduced to Robyn, the Swedish pop star, and she was also exploring howtechnology coexists with raw human emotion. And she talked about how technologywith these new feathers, this new face paint, this punk, the way that weidentify with the world, and we made this music video.

我还在红灯区建立了自己的工作室，然后不可抑制地用管子缠满了自己的身体，然后我发现这可以重新定义肌肤，并且也是一种动态的纺织品。然后我被介绍给罗宾，一位瑞典的歌星，她也在探索着怎样使科技与我们的原始情感巧妙结合的方法。然后她跟我说了怎样用科技造就这些新型“羽毛” 这些面妆，这种朋克风，以及我们定义这个世界的方式 于是我们就做了这个MV。

I'm fascinated with the idea of whathappens when you merge biology with technology, and I remember reading aboutthis idea of being able to reprogram biology, in the future, away from diseaseand aging. 

我非常着迷于这点子，要是把科技和生物学融合在一起会发生什么？我记得曾经读过一个点子，是关于在未来我们可以通过改变生物内在编码，来克服疾病与衰老。

And I thought about this concept of, imagine if we could reprogramour own body odor, modify and biologically enhance it, and how would thatchange the way that we communicate with each other? Or the way that we attractsexual partners? 

我还想到了另一个点子，想象一下如果我们可以重塑身体的气味，修改它并且从生物性能上增强它，这会怎样影响我们互相交流的方式呢？ 又会怎样影响我们寻找炮友的途径呢？

And would we revert back to being more like animals, moreprimal modes of communication? I worked with a synthetic biologist, and Icreated a swallowable perfume, which is a cosmetic pill that you eat and thefragrance comes out through the skin's surface when you perspire. It completelyblows apart the way that perfume is, and provides a whole new format. It'sperfume coming from the inside out. It redefines the role of skin, and ourbodies become an atomizer.

我们会退回到最初，像动物那样用最原始的手段来交流吗？ 我曾跟一个合成生物学家共事过，我们创造出了一种可食用的香水，其实就是个能吃的化妆药片，然后当你出汗的时候香味就会从你的肌肤表面散发出来，这彻底颠覆了以前大家对香水的印象。并且提供了一种全新的方式，这种香水从内而外的散发出来，它重新定义了肌肤的功能，并且我们的身体变成了一个香水喷瓶。

I've learned that there's no boundaries,and if I look at the evolution of my work i can see threads and connectionsthat make sense. But when I look towards the future, the next project iscompletely unknown and wide open. I feel like I have all these ideas existingembedded inside of me, and it's these conversations and these experiences thatconnect these ideas, and they kind of instinctively come out.

我现在知道了我的工作进展，其实是有着广阔前景的。我的确可以看到有一些链接和节点贯穿着这个前景，不过当我展望未来时，我的下一个作品又是完全未知而开放的。我觉得我身体内装满了不同的点子，就是这些对话与经历让我本能似的把我的想法给组合起来。

As a body architect, I've created thislimitless and boundless platform for me to discover whatever I want. And I feellike I've just got started.

作为一个人体建筑师，我已经为自己创造了一个无拘无束，没有限制的平台，让我可以去寻找我想要的，我现在感觉我才刚刚开始。

So here's to another day at the office.(Laughter) (Applause)

那么，新的一天里要开始工作啦！（笑声）（掌声）

Thank you!Thank you!

谢谢大家！ 谢谢啊！

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