Tag: Research

Neri Oxman collaborates with MIT to develop a water-based renewable material. The team has developed an organic composed and digital manufactured material using a polymer from the ocean. The process combines an age-old crustacean-derived material with robotic fabrication and synthetic biology.  Together this biologically...

The Berlin-based designer Nadine Goepfert explores the conventional functions and uses of materials to channel long-standing values into contemporary design. Her study of ‘Manners’ presents a consideration of the social and historical context of table linen and napery, with emphasis on the...

This ongoing research project is the work of British multi-disciplinary designer Michael Pecirno, who has extensively researched various aspects of the geography of the United States in order to create single-subject maps dedicated to individual aspects of the country’s landscape. The maps,...

In Pieces is an interactive exhibition which shows 30 of the world’s endangered species of animals, each of which is formed from 30 pieces. The project is not just a graphic one using CSS polygons (although it’s very well done...

The Institute for Computer-Based Design and the Institute for Structural Engineering and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart, have come together again to create a structure which embodies the idea of bionics. The structure is intended to be an “advance of the search for a natural structure,which has...