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Moby Dick
“I remember when we did the Mandela Pavilion, we read Moby Dick, the whiteness of the whale, the albino, the different the other, and that got us to work on melanin and melanine also is sort of an output from the death mass.”
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Neri Oxman
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I think everything, everything, everything good I’ve found in my life has been found in that way of letting go and suspending my sense of disbelief.
“I think everything, everything, everything good I’ve found in my life has been found in that way of letting go and suspending my sense of disbelief.”
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- Neri Oxman
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / preference
The reason I’m bringing this forward is because we don’t view ourselves as designers of consumable products and architectural environments only, but we love that moment where these technologies… And by the way, every one of these projects that we created involve the creation of a new technology, whether it be a glass printer or the spinning robot or the life support system for the bee colony.
“The reason I’m bringing this forward is because we don’t view ourselves as designers of consumable products and architectural environments only, but we love that moment where these technologies… And by the way, every one of these projects that we created involve the creation of a new technology, whether it be a glass printer or the spinning robot or the life support system for the bee colony.”
- Speaker
- Neri Oxman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / preference
Because that will get us closer to growing things as opposed to assembly and mechanically putting them together with toxic materials and compounds.
“Because that will get us closer to growing things as opposed to assembly and mechanically putting them together with toxic materials and compounds.”
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- Neri Oxman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / preference
I love that question because to some of us, the loss of control is control. In design, we’re used to extreme levels of control over form and the shape of a thing and how it behaves and how it functions.
“I love that question because to some of us, the loss of control is control. In design, we’re used to extreme levels of control over form and the shape of a thing and how it behaves and how it functions.”
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- Neri Oxman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
05 / preference
It was just unbelievable. But with plants, there potentially is a set of molecules that impacts or inspires, I like that word, the plant to behave or act in a certain way, and allows still the plan the possibility of deciding where it or she or he wants to go.
“It was just unbelievable. But with plants, there potentially is a set of molecules that impacts or inspires, I like that word, the plant to behave or act in a certain way, and allows still the plan the possibility of deciding where it or she or he wants to go.”
- Speaker
- Neri Oxman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast