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" The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process. "

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" I like to mostly wear very simple clothes. "

" 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. "

" Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction. "

" 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. "

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

" How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language? "

" All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual. "

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

" The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world. "

" 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. "

" It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity. "

" For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes. "

" Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both? "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up. "

" When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear. "

" 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. "