MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: NSF Course, May 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012

NSF Course, May 2012

Biologically-Inspired Digital Design and Fabrication

by Neri Oxman, as part of the NSF Summer Institute Short Course:

Materiomics—Merging Biology and Engineering in Multiscale Structures and Materials

Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LeMeridien Hotel (former Hotel@MIT)

Chair: Markus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mbuehler@MIT.EDU)

Dates: May 30 (Wednesday) morning to June 1 (Friday) evening, 2012

More information can be found here:
http://summerinstitute.mech.northwestern.edu/_links2/Materiomics.pdf

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.