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I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.
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Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.
Neri Oxman
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We've managed to motion-track the silkworm's movement as it is building its cocoon. Our aim was to translate the motion-capture data into a 3D printer connected to a robotic arm in order to study the biological structure in larger scales.
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We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics!
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I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.
Neri Oxman -
Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.
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If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.
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It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.
Neri Oxman
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I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.
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Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.
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A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
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One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.
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The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.
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I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'
Neri Oxman
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The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.
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I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.
Neri Oxman -
Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
Neri Oxman -
Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?
Neri Oxman -
Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.
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Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.
Neri Oxman
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In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.
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Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?
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The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part.
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All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.
Neri Oxman