# Architecture that repairs itself?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2009
- Speaker: Rachel Armstrong
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_armstrong_architecture_that_repairs_itself)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.

## Lectures

1. [Architecture that repairs itself?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/rachel_armstrong_architecture_that_repairs_itself/99c2b3c125ec), 8 min (TED's player)