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" I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction. "
Neri Oxman
Construction
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Details
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" 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
Think
Imagination
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" In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world. "
Neri Oxman
World
Ideas
Identity
" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Printing
Obvious
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" How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language? "
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Language
" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "
Neri Oxman
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More
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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. "
Neri Oxman
Mother
Nature
Listening
" 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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Myself
Better
Creation
" 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
Science
" I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes. "
Neri Oxman
Am
I Am
Inspired
" Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom. "
Neri Oxman
Willing
More
Admit
" 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
Transition
Nature
" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Doctor
Think
Me
" 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
Think
Reality
Nature
" 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
Beautiful
" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Year
Planet
Thought
" 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
Filter
Same
" Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology. "
Neri Oxman
Technology
Craft
Help
" 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? "
Neri Oxman
Design
Water
Skin
" 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
" 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
Steel
Create
Nature
" One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated. "
Neri Oxman
Web
Cannot
Form
" 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
Rhetoric
History
" 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
True
World
Expression
" It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity. "
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Work
Awareness
Hard Work
" 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
Performance
Environmental
" 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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Spider
Like
Different
" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Small
Precious
Biology
" 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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Future
Believe
I Believe
" 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
Dreams
Memories
Relationships
" All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual. "
Neri Oxman
Great
Mythical
Mixed