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.

Neri Oxman

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I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and h... by Neri Oxman

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

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What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

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One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which i... by Neri Oxman

One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.

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In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

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I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

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Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

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There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

look change beautiful life

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!

treat you global-warming world

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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The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

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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.

create stronger nature strong

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.

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I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown - except for when men misnomer 'confident' with 'poised' and 'passionate' with 'feisty.' I work hard.

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Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it's the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity.

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Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate cra... by Neri Oxman

Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.

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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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I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. by Neri Oxman

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

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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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I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

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The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufact... by Neri Oxman

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

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