MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: MoMA / SEED Salon

Saturday, October 27, 2007

MoMA / SEED Salon

I will be giving a talk at the MoMA / SEED Salon this coming Tuesday, October 30th. The theme of the Salon is "The Mind". The discussion will include recent discoveries in neuron growth, brain functions, interfaces, imaging, etc. Joy Hirsch (fMRI Research Center at Columbia, Director), Kevin Slavin (Area/Code, Director), Liz Gould (Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton University) and myself are confirmed to speak. The lecture entitled "Natural Artifice" is a humble attempt to relate some of the work of MATERIALECOLOGY to my earlier research at the Department of Physiology in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Medical School under Prof. Rami Rahamimoff.

MoMA SEED Salon Listings
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materialecology

materialecology was formed in 2006 by Neri Oxman as an interdisciplinary research initiative that undertakes design research in the intersection between architecture, engineering, computation, and ecology. As such, this initiative is concerned with material organization and performance across all scales of design thought and practice. As such, it seeks to promote and define a design research agenda which is ecological in nature, in ideology and in material practice; it aims at embracing the evolving elements of change in both (and indeed related) social constructs and environmental descriptions of the ever changing built environment. materialecology undertakes research in advanced digital applications for architectural practice and pursuits their contribution to a design paradigm promoting generative design processes.