The woman who won the genetic lottery - lucky for us.

NO

 Much harder to say than YES, despite it being one letter less.

 

N.O. 

 

stands for Neri Oxman.

 

A woman.

A beautiful jewish woman.

A planet of creativity in a galaxy. 

 

 

Netflix.my digital library. is where I met Neri first. 

A space to find and learn more about interesting people that perhaps shy from limelight.

 

 

There's very little celebrity in what Neri has done.

And I love that. 

 

It's research, collaboration, lab based.

 

From Haifa (Israel) to M.I.T. Media Lab (U.S.A.)  her thoughts, trials and work were always transported into the future. Not a few years into the future, but 200 years. To think beyond our Imaginations. 

 

In 2020, Entropomass - the mass embodied in the built environment (concrete, glass, bricks) will exceed the biomass of our planet (trees, fungi, animals). 

 

Neri looks toward solutions between the natural and the built environment. A compromise between the practical and the Ideal. 

 

"Since our divorce from nature through the Industrial Revolution."

Is a line I particularly like from Neri. 

 

Nature x Humanity is a must watch to understand that line and her pilgrimage.

 

You see, her work isn't just scientific, It's steeped in story and beauty.

 A frieze to hope; there's art in her work. 

 

 

Check out her Silk Pavilion.

 

Did you know that we boil the silk worm to gain its silk?

Well, the pavilion saves the silk worms - more in fact, they multiply...

What if we can grow structures that mimic nature. 

Birth AND death.

 

QUESTION: 

Can products grow and decompose as tangible ecosystems?

We 'wang on' about nature.

We know it's good for us to be connected to nature,

BUT

after 'our divorce from nature' some 200 years ago - could we grow our own new society of co-habitation?

Food for thought as you wander, wonder and plan our collective futures?

 

 

Check out OXMAN for more peeks into the far future.  

 

Thanks for reading, Paul.