[TeCh | WTF] This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe
by FuKdAtShHh on Nov.18, 2009, under Technology, WTF!!!
Check out this article I found on Gizmodo by Rosa Golijan …. What ya think?
Every single day we oooh and aahhh over the latest design concepts, but right now, let’s focus on one of the minds behind such designs and smile in awe of her motivations and inspirations. Meet MIT designer, Neri Oxman.
Oxman
went through medical school, but abandoned that career path for a
“mishmash of design, architecture, art, and computer programming.”
She
works out of MIT’s media lab and strives to bring about her vision of
the future which consists of all objects living, breathing, and
adapting as we interact with them. She imagines organic architecture
designs, nanotube walls which change size, chairs that change shape as
you sit, DNA-encoded clothing that grows with you. She explains that
studying how human bones adjust, getting thicker when a woman is
pregnant or thinner when individuals are in outer space, inspired that
vision of hers.
As with many other designs that we see,
Oxman’s are stunning in their intricate plays with textures and
materials, but to me the dreamy vision that pushes her to create them
adds so much more to the way I view her works. I expect them to draw
breath. Maybe we should start taking closer looks at the minds behind
the eye-candy we so enjoy. Are there any objects, maybe even gadgets,
that truly made you want to know how they were inspired? [Materialecology Blog via Materialecology via Esquire]
