Reason to celebrate: 'Neri Oxman: Material Ecology,' the first survey on the interdisciplinary biodesign genius of Neri Oxman, pioneer of "material ecology," is Back in Stock!â â â â Throughout her 20-year career, @oxmanofficial has invented not only new ideas for materials, buildings and construction processes, but also new frameworks for interdisciplinaryâand interspeciesâcollaborations. She coined the term âmaterial ecologyâ to describe her process of producing techniques and objects informed by the structural, systemic and aesthetic wisdom of nature, from the shells of crustaceans to the flow of human breathing.â â â â Groundbreaking for its solid technological and scientific basis, its rigorous and daring experimentation, its visionary philosophy and its unquestionable attention to formal elegance, Oxmanâs work operates at the intersection of biology, engineering, architecture and artistic design, material science and computer science.â â â â This bookâdesigned by @irma_boom_amsterdam and published to accompany a midcareer retrospective of Oxmanâs work @themuseumofmodernart âhighlights the interdisciplinary nature of the designerâs practice. It demonstrates how Oxmanâs contributions allow us to question and redefine the idea of modernismâa concept in constant evolutionâand of organic design. Some of the projects featured in the book and exhibition include the Silk Pavilion, which harnesses silkworms' ability to generate a 3-D cocoon out of a single thread silk in order to create architectural constructions; Aguahoja, a water-based fabrication platform that prints structures made out of different biopolymers; and Glass, an additive manufacturing technology for 3-D printing optically transparent glass structures at architectural dimensions.â â â â Israeli American architect, designer and inventor Neri Oxman (born 1976) is professor of media arts and sciences @mitmedialab â â â â Edited with text by @paolantonelli Text by @annaburckhardt & @hadassteinerâ â â â Read more via linkinbio!â â â â #nerioxman #irmaboom #momadesign #design #materialecology #biodesign https://www.instagram.com/p/CNNrAjNpNEO/?igshid=16xb64rkpqkil