Introduction: It's a brand new morning / Neil Spiller and Rachel Armstrong -- Structure and the synthesis of life / Martin Hanczyc -- Defining new architectural design principles with 'living' inorganic materials / Leroy Cronin -- Dream a little dream / Mark Morris -- An architectural chemistry / Omar Khan -- Protocells: the universal solvent / Neil Spiller -- How protocells can make 'stuff' much more interesting / Rachel Armstrong -- Soil and protoplasm: the hylozoic ground project / Philip Beesley and Rachel Armstrong -- Authorship at risk: the role of the architect / Dan Slavinsky -- Proto-design: architecture's primordial soup and the quest for units of synthetic life / Neri Oxman -- Back to the future / Paul Preissner -- Line array: protocells and dynamic structure / IwamotoScott Architecture (Lisa Iwamoto) -- AVATAR and the politics of protocell architecture / Nic Clear -- Counterpoint: Bettering biology? / Bill Watts.