Neri Oxman Quotes
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.
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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.
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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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One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.
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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 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.
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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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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?'
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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.
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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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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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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?
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It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.
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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 am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.
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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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Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.
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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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The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.
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Unlike a pressed or blown-glass part, which traditionally has smooth internal surface features, a printed part can have complex surface features on the inside as well as the outside.
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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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In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.
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Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?
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To wear a beautiful new garment is like wearing a new idea, and I see them as the same thing. Opening my closet is a form of meditation. I pick whatever I feel is right for the day.