American - Architect | 1976 -
Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?
Neri Oxman
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I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
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I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.
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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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The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.
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In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and achieve structural and material complexity.
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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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When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other.
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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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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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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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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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