{"title":"Neri Oxman","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the innovative intersection of design, science, and technology in the works of \u003cstrong\u003eNeri Oxman\u003c\/strong\u003e. These books delve into experimental approaches to materials and forms, offering thought-provoking insights into the future of creative production and mediated matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers fascinated by contemporary arts and culture, this collection highlights groundbreaking concepts that challenge conventional boundaries between art, architecture, and biology. Immerse yourself in visionary ideas that redefine the creative process.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"neri-oxman-mediated-matter-by-neri-oxman-9781633451056","title":"Neri Oxman: Mediated Matter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first survey on the interdisciplinary biodesign genius of Neri Oxman, pioneer of \"material ecology\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout her 20-year career, Neri Oxman has invented not only new ideas for materials, buildings and construction processes, but also new frameworks for interdisciplinary—and interspecies—collaborations. She coined the term \"material ecology\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGroundbreaking for its solid technological and scientific basis, its rigorous and daring experimentation, its visionary philosophy and its unquestionable attention to formal elegance, Oxman's work operates at the intersection of biology, engineering, architecture and artistic design, material science and computer science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeri Oxman: Mediated Matter\u003c\/i\u003e—designed by Irma Boom and published to accompany a midcareer retrospective of Oxman's work—highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the designer's practice. It demonstrates how Oxman's contributions allow us to question and redefine the idea of modernism—a concept in constant evolution—and of organic design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome 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 of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471306375404,"sku":"9781633451056","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781633451056-neri-oxman-mediated-matter.jpg?v=1775237621"},{"product_id":"mediated-matter-by-neri-oxman-9780500024416","title":"Mediated Matter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn ambitious monograph on Neri Oxman, one of the most inventive minds of our time, whose interdisciplinary design work blends, transcends and redefines the practices of computer science, digital fabrication, material science and synthetic biology.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeri Oxman has forged a singular career across design, science and technology for over twenty years. Trained as both a medical doctor and an architect, she has brought an entirely new spirit of thinking and experimentation to all facets of design. Oxman defines her work at the MIT Media Lab, which approaches nature as processes and substances to be molded to design ends, as 'material ecology.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing this method, products and buildings are designed as interactive entities that are environmentally informed, biologically augmented, computationally grown and digitally manufactured. The products of her ground-breaking methods are arresting and have major implications for all aspects and scales of design, where Oxman's work is at the edge of many interrelated—and unexpected—practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom using silkworms' thread to generate a cocoon-like construction to a synthetic apiary, from a water-based fabrication platform that prints structures made out of biopolymers, to automated microrobots that can build their own structure, Oxman and her teams are producing an entirely new vocabulary for designers with far-reaching implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMediated Matter\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive overview of Oxman's work. Six central chapters—Biopolymers, Cellular Solids, Fibers, Functional Pigments, Organic Comb and Symbiotic Microbes—present the thinking behind the key projects and the process of their creation as well as, crucially, their potential for use in the built environment, all shown in detail through diagrams, explanatory texts, process documents and breathtaking photographs. Through its scientific rigour, sheer imagination and design innovation, this novel publication, like its author, is a future-facing manifesto for a true symbiosis of nature and design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47773092479212,"sku":"9780500024416","price":170.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780500024416-mediated-matter.jpg?v=1782180641"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/neri-oxman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}