Sascha Pohflepp was a German-born artist, designer, and writer whose work probed the role of technology in our efforts to understand and influence our environment. His interests extended across both historical aspects and visions of the future, and his practice often involved collaboration with other artists and scientists, creating work on subjects ranging from synthetic biology to geo-engineering and space exploration. Grants and residencies included an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant in 2011, and residencies in the “Synthetic Aesthetics” project and at Art Center College Pasadena in 2010. In fall/winter 2013, Sascha had been an artist in residence at Eyebeam, New York. Recent exhibitions included “Talk To Me” at MoMA New York, “Pre-history of the Image” at STUK Kunstencentrum Leuven, “Science Fiction: New Death” at FACT Liverpool, “Multiplicity” at Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, and an online project for opti-ME* at Auto Italia London. From 2004 to 2007 he had been a contributing editor to We-Make-Money-Not-Art and his writing had since been published on various platforms including Volume, Under/Current and 60pages. Since 2013, Sascha had been an editor with VVVNT Magazine. His essay on the notion of living machines is part of the book Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating synthetic biology’s designs on nature (MIT Press, 2014). Sascha held a diploma in media art from the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) and an MA in design interactions from the Royal College of Art, London, where he had also been leading the annual synthetic biology project.