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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. "

Neri Oxman

Live

Life

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

Neri Oxman

Willing

Admit

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" I like to mostly wear very simple clothes. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes. "

Neri Oxman

I Am

Inspired

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. "

" 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. "

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

Neri Oxman

Spider

Different

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

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

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

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