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Neri Oxman

What Neri Oxman thinks about sustainability

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Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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2 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Neri Oxman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingThe way we make things is out of tune with the time dimension of the natural world, and that has to change even if it means designing on the scale of centuries.

    Their wordsAnd the way of being in the physical world today is really not in tune with the time dimension of the natural world at all, and that needs to change.

    ↗Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394youtube.com 11th of 16 in this recording

  3. Our readingCalling a fragrance bio-derived says nothing about what it cost nature: ten thousand rose bushes are burned through to make five millilitres of it.

    Their wordsBut when you look into the fragrance and you understand that in order to get to this bio-derived fragrance, you blew through 10,000 bushes of rose to create 5 mL of a rose fragrance. And all these 10,000 bushes of rose, they take space, they take water management, and so much waste.

    ↗Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394youtube.com 12th of 16 in this recording