clipped from: Neri Oxman
Imagine a chair that moves when you move, that adjusts to every muscle in your body, that responds like a living organism
the Beast chair is a prime example of the “living-synthetic constructions”
Raised in Haifa and Caesarea, Israel, by architect parents, Oxman rebelled (well, by academic standards anyway) by going into medicine
she ventured to London to get a degree from the Architectural Association School of Architecture before enrolling in the PhD program in design computation at MIT
change the world by proving how technology can live in harmony with nature
think buildings that can “breath and sweat and think and grow and change,” she says. Recently at MoMA, she even showed a series of hive-like sculptures made of wood, acrylic, and nylon that actually respond to light, heat, and weight like living tissue
most of her products and prototypes aren’t very commercially viable
“Forget about the way it looks,” she says. “Think about how it behaves.”
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