Neri Oxman
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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And we started a new area.
One of my students, Rachel, her PhD thesis was titled after this new class of materials that we created through this project Vespers, hybrid living materials, HLMs.
And these hybrid living materials are,
really paved the way towards a whole other set of products that we've designed, like the work that we did with Melanin for the Mandela Pavilion that we presented at SFMOMA, where, again, we're using the same principles of
Templating in this case, not silkworms and not bees, but we're templating bacteria at a much, much, much more finer resolution.
And now instead of templating using a robot, we're templating using a printer.
But compute is very, very much part of it.
And what's nice about bacteria, of course, is that from an ethical perspective, I think there's a range, right?
So at the end of the Silk Pavilion, I got an email from a professor in Japan who was
has been working on transgenic silk and said, well, if you did this amazing silk pavilion, why don't we create glow-in-the-light silk dresses?
And in order to create this glow-in-the-light silk, we need to apply jeans that are taken from a spider to a silkworm.
And this is what is known as a transgenic operation.
And we said no.
And that was for us a clear decision that no, we will work with these organisms as long as we know that what we are doing with them is not only better for humans, but it's also better for them.
And again, just to remind you, we're...
I forget the exact number, but it's around a thousand cocoons per single shirt that are exterminated in India and China and in those sericulture industries that are being abused.
Now, yes, this organism was designed to serve the human species.
And maybe it's time to...
To retire that conception of organisms that are designed for a human-centric world or human-centric set of applications, I don't feel the same way about E. coli.
Not that I'm agnostic, organism agnostic, but still, I believe there's so much for us to do on this planet with bacteria.
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