Neri Oxman
Person on 3 sites
Designer and architect; led the Mediated Matter group at the MIT Media Lab and founded the design company Oxman.
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The things humankind designed are precisely the things that separated us from nature, and the point of design now is to undo that separation. (opens korrents.com)
“I think that let's say from the beginning of mankind going back 200,000 years, the products that we have designed have separated us from nature. And it's ironic that the things that we designed and produced as…”
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Nature holds a wisdom that sits above intelligence, and that wisdom, not intelligence, is what technology should be trying to tap into. (opens korrents.com)
“Everybody talks about intelligence these days, but I like to think that nature has kind of wisdom that exists beyond intelligence or above intelligence, and it's that wisdom that we're trying to tap into through…”
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The mycelial network is not the model for a connected nature, because it stops wherever there is a physical gap. (opens korrents.com)
“Well, first of all, yes, they're connected, but that network stops when there is a physical gap. That network does not necessarily enable the whales in the Dominican to connect with an olive tree in Israel to connect…”
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The things humankind designed are precisely the things that separated us from nature, and the point of design now is to undo that separation. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Godfather (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Godfather is definitely up there. Francis Coppola is one of my heroes.”
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War and Peace (opens rcmnd.app)
“Anything I can find online by Lenny Bernstein, it’s reading a nature paper, it’s War and Peace. It’s really revisiting all the texts that are so timeless for me”
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The Godfather (opens rcmnd.app)