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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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" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope. "

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

Neri Oxman

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" One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated. "

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

Neri Oxman

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I like to mostly wear very simple clothes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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