The group, members say, is a collection of creative individuals who pool their resources and knowledge to work on a diverse set of projects, not all of which are related to technology, as their name would suggest.
The centre will adopt a multidisciplinary approach toward stem cell research, and it will employ scientists "who will work on a diverse array of embryonic and adult stem cells," adds Rudnicki, who is also the centre's director.
He's worked on a diverse list of clients in a wide range of categories, including retail, consumer electronics, medical, food and beverage, travel, automotive, energy, packaged goods, professional sports and entertainment.
Although the advisers specialise to a degree, Nath is currently working on projects as diverse and challenging as "e-Science and the grid," "The militarisation of space," and "the 24 hour society".
In addition, they're working on adding a diverse catalog of languages that will add to the international appeal of the site.
She's worked on projects as diverse as an opera about New Orleans Voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau (Crescent City), an autobiographical monodrama about paranormal disturbances in her own home (Some Things Should Not Move), and a "one-woman cyborg opera" (Sucktion), which blurred the distinction between housewife and vacuum cleaner.
She's worked on projects as diverse as an opera about New Orleans Voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau (Crescent City), an autobiographical monodrama about paranormal disturbances in her own home (Some Things Should Not Move), and a "one-woman cyborg opera" (Suktion), which blurred the distinction between housewife and vacuum cleaner.
Previously he's worked on projects as diverse as video archives of Nobel Prize winners, putting contemporary art on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, building best-selling social worlds for children, a developer platform for the Guardian and open data projects with the UK government.
Through reference to contemporary strands of geographic scholarship, from Gibson-Graham's (2006) work on diverse economies to authors such as Bingham and Hinchliffe (2008) and Whatmore (2006) on human and more-than-human materialities, the authors seek to focus attention on assemblages, embodiment and risk in understanding pastoralism and pastoral economies.
After having worked on projects as diverse as the entrance to the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale and Trey Parker and Matt Stone's savage satire Team America: World Police, this project provided an interesting opportunity for the group to flex their luxury design muscle.
