MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: Natural Artifice at MoMA

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Natural Artifice at MoMA

MATERIALECOLOGY's most recent work entitled Natural Artifice will be exhibited at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art to open Feb 24th in NY. The work celebrates the practice of Design as Life Science across scales of performance and production, as well as exploring new forms of disruptive technologies. Stay tuned and aglow for a new website showcasing the artifacts and the inspiration.
The work has been supported by the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, the Media Lab and the Design Lab at MIT. A detailed sponsor list will accompany each of my pieces in the exhibit.
The show is curated by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, and Patricia Juncosa, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit will last Feb 24th till May 12th and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Design and the Elastic Mind Website
MIT School of Architecture and Planning Announcement
Links to All Participating Artists and Designers

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.