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" Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology. "
Neri Oxman
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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. "
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" It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual. "
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" In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world. "
Neri Oxman
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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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" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Everyone
You
Time
" 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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Thought
" Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom. "
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More
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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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Transition
Nature
" In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all. "
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Engineering
Nature
" I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction. "
Neri Oxman
Construction
Good
Details
" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Science
You
Art
" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Back
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Same
" 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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Environmental
Knowledge
" Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both? "
Neri Oxman
Choose
Why
You
" The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace. "
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Technology
Been
Pace
" 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
Mind
Process
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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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" I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology. "
Neri Oxman
Fashion
Biology
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" 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
Culture
Architecture
Food
" The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. "
Neri Oxman
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World
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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. "
Neri Oxman
Relationship
Buildings
Design
" I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. "
Neri Oxman
Believe
Building
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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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Need
Treat
You
" 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
Myself
Better
Creation
" One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated. "
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Web
Cannot
Form
" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "
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Architecture
More
Culture
" I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes. "
Neri Oxman
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