This course explores the intersection of emerging technologies, biology, and design and equips students with the vocabulary and laboratory skills to collaborate with interdisciplinary scholars/activists, and designers. Students explore the critical role that arts have played in directing biomedical, ecological, and life science research by engaging with questions of control, manipulation, and influence. Each module in the course includes artworks to introduce biological concepts, a wet lab experience to explore the tools and practices connected to biodesign, and resources to grapple with the ethics and implications associated with creating microbial pigments, new drugs and materials, and organisms capable of monitoring and/or adapting to climate change, human waste, and chemical exposure and toxicity. Assignments will include in-class collaborations for lab, brief lab write ups and presentations, and a final project that explores an emerging technology and its implications for society in any format that the student chooses (performance, art, text, website, journalism, film). The topics will rotate each semester and students need not be artists, designers, nor scientists to take this course. Rather, the course is designed for everyone- as it showcases the many ways that we are collectively seeking to navigate our swiftly changing planet in sustainable, just, and responsive ways. This course satisfies the Parsons Elective in Liberal Arts and the Shared Capacity for Scientific Thinking, the lab requirement for the Interdisciplinary Science Major and Minor, the Elective for the Natural Science Track of Environmental Studies, the Subject area course for the Journalism & Design Major, the elective for the Sustainable Cities minor, and provides foundational knowledge and skills for the Parsons Biodesign Challenge Course.