Neri Oxman

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature · 1 Sep 2023 podcast

We were thinking, okay, what if we created this environment where bees

before you template, right?

Before you can design with, you have to design for, right?

You have to create this space of mutualism, space of sort of shared connection between you and the organism.

And with bees, it started as the synthetic apiary.

And we have proven that that curated environment where we design the space with high levels of control of temperature, humidity, and light,

And we've proven that they were reproductive and alive.

And we realized, wow, this environment that we created can help augment bees in the winter season in any city around the world where bees survive and thrive in the summer and spring seasons.

And could this be a kind of a new urban typology, an architectural typology of symbiosis, of mutualism between organisms and humans?

By the way, the synthetic apiary was in a co-op in nearby Somerville.

We had robots.

Our team schlepped there every day with our tools and machines, and we made it happen.

And the neighbors were very happy, and they got to get a ton of honey at the end of the winter.

And those bees, of course, were released into the wild at the end of the winter, alive and kicking.

So then in order to actually experiment with the robotic queen and idea or concept, we had to prove obviously that we can create this space for bees.

And then after that, we had this amazing opportunity to send the bees to space on Blue Shepherd mission that is part of Blue Origin.

And we, of course, said, yes, we'll take a slot.

We said, okay, can we outdo NASA?

So NASA in 1982 had an experiment where they sent bees to outer space.

The bees returned.

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