Speakers
Neri Oxman
Presidential Research Fellow, Design Computation, MIT
Neri Oxman is a designer and researcher whose work establishes a new approach to design at the interface of computer science, material engineering, and ecology. She is the founder of an interdisciplinary design initiative, MATERIALECOLOGY. A graduate of the AA School of Architecture and previously a medical scholar at the Hebrew University and the Technion Institute of Technology, she is currently based at MIT where she is a presidential research fellow and a PhD candidate in Design Computation.
Transcending disciplinary and professional boundaries, Oxman’s work pioneers a design paradigm beyond purely formal expression that engages creation through the lens of computational form-finding. Her work, Natural Artifice, has recently been displayed in the Museum of Modern Art’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, and is now part of the museum’s collection. Current work is on display at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville and the 2008 Design Beijing Biennial. Neri has won multiple awards for her research including the HOLCIM Next Generation Award for Sustainable Construction, a Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award, the AICF Award of Excellence, the Harold Horowitz Award, the International Earth Award for Future-Crucial Design and others.
Oxman has given numerous workshops and public lectures at MIT, Harvard, Cornell, Georgia-Tech, UC Berkeley, and at professional institutions such as the American Institute of Architects NY, SOM, and KPF.
Her design, research and art have been published widely and she continues to engage in design research featuring new initiatives at the intellectual and productive interface between science, art, and design.