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How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?
- Neri Oxman
#Design
#Language
#New
#Printing
#Way
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Biology
#Design
#Nature
#Product
#Will
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
#Better
#Creation
#Design
#Myself
#Return
Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?
- Neri Oxman
#Both
#Choice
#Choose
#Compromise
#Why
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
#Biology
#Come
#Find
#History
#Rhetoric
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Design
#Imagination
#Revolution
#World
In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?
- Neri Oxman
#Alone
#Architecture
#Chance
#Feet
#Light
I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
- Neri Oxman
#Children
#Design
#Editing
#Grow
#Nature
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Good
#Independence
#Live
#Men
#Work
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
#Environmental
#Knowledge
#Revolution
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Building
#Environmental
#Glass
#Skin
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Beautiful
#Day
#Feel
#New
#See
I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression.
- Neri Oxman
#Fields
#Same
#Together
#True
#World
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Aim
#Building
#Data
#Movement
#Order
I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.
- Neri Oxman
#Architecture
#Design
#Food
#Love
#Value
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
- Neri Oxman
#Architecture
#Buildings
#Struggle
#Tools
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
- Neri Oxman
#Action
#Architecture
#Nature
#Reality
The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.
- Neri Oxman
#Beautiful
#Mind
#Most Beautiful
#Process
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
#Collection
#Dreams
#Hide
#Memories
#Pain
The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.
- Neri Oxman
#Design
#Manufacturing
#Production
#World
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Art
#Design
#Doing
#Great
#Science
Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.
- Neri Oxman
#Craft
#Help
#Machine
#Rapid
#Technology
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!
- Neri Oxman
#Everything
#Global Warming
#Treat
#World
It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.
- Neri Oxman
#Awareness
#Hard Work
#Identity
#Work
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
#Create
#Human
#Nature
#Steel
#Stronger
One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.
- Neri Oxman
#Cannot
#Spider
#Way
#Web
#Which
I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.
- Neri Oxman
#Balance
#Believe
#Building
#I Believe
Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
- Neri Oxman
#About
#Like
#Look
#Spider
#Spiders
In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.
- Neri Oxman
#Bone
#Design
#Does
#Engineering
#Nature
#Separation
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Buildings
#Design
#Future
#Relationship
If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the 'in-betweens,' and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science.
- Neri Oxman
#Art
#Believe
#Midnight
#Moving
#Science
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
- Neri Oxman
#Architecture
#Culture
#Design
#Important
#Language
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.
- Neri Oxman
#Beautiful
#Change
#Life
#Live
#Search
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