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" 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. "

Neri Oxman

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Aim

Building

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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. "

" 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. "

" Unlike a pressed or blown-glass part, which traditionally has smooth internal surface features, a printed part can have complex surface features on the inside as well as the outside. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Neri Oxman

Architecture

Culture

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Neri Oxman

Willing

Admit

" The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. "

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