Amber FarrowAmber Farrow is a third-year M.Arch candidate at The Weitzman School of Design. In addition to founding the club Dinner Discourse she currently holds the chair position of Professional Development for Penn Women in Design. She previously studied at Nwcastle University, where she received her Bachelor of Architecture degree. There her pursuit in the intersection between science and design started from work she did in the Experimental Architecture studio, led by Dr Martyn Dade-Roberston. Since then she has continued researching interdisciplinary practices and is currently studying the application of soft robotics in architecture for her graduate thesis, Becoming Robotic: Becoming Nature. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Van Alen Traveling Fellowship which has enabled her study of Dendriform structures in Spanish architecture, an aesthetic and structural rationality, which seeks to showcase historic and contemporary practices operating at the intersection of design, nature and technology. Read More Read Less