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

They were not reproductive.

And some of them died.

And we thought, well, is there a way in which we can create a life support system, almost like a small mini biolab of a queen and her retinue,

that would be sent in this Blue Origin New Shepard mission in this one cell.

And so that, if the synthetic APA was an architectural project, in this case, this second synthetic APA was a product.

It was, right, so from an architectural controlled environment to a product scale control environment,

And this bio lab, this life support system for bees, was designed to provide the bees with all the conditions that they needed.

And we looked at that time at the Nasonov pheromone that the queen uses to guide the other bees.

And we looked at pheromones that are associated with a bee.

And thinking of those pheromones being released inside the capsule that goes to outer space.

They returned back to the Media Lab roof.

And those bees were alive and kicking and reproductive.

And they continued to create comb.

And it ended with a beautiful nature paper that the team and I published together.

We gave them gold nanoparticles and silver nanoparticles because we were interested if bees recycle wax.

It was known forever that bees do not recycle the wax.

And by feeding them these gold nanoparticles, we were able to prove that the bees actually do recycle the wax.

The reason I'm bringing this forward is because

We don't view ourselves as designers of consumable products and architectural environments only.

But we love that moment where these technologies, and by the way, every one of these projects that we created involved the creation of a new technology, whether it be a glass printer or the spinning robot or whatever.

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