Neri Oxman

And in February, we'll invite you to the lab.

Yes.

And just take a step back over the 10 years, the Mediated Matter Group, which was my group at MIT, has sort of dedicated itself to, biobased design would be a suitcase word, but sort of thinking about that synergy between nature and culture, biology and technology.

And we attempted to build a suite of embodiments, let's say, that they ended up in amazing museums and amazing shows.

And we wrote patents and papers on them, but they were still N of ones.

Again, the challenge, as you say, was to grow them.

And we classified them into fibers, cellular solids, biopolymers, pigments.

And in each of the examples, although the material was different, sometimes we used fibers, sometimes we used

silk with silkworms and honey with bees or comb as the structural material.

With vespers, we used synthetically engineered bacteria to produce pigments.

Although the materials were different and the hero organisms were different, the philosophy was always the same.

The approach was really an approach of computational templating.

That templating allowed us to create templates for the natural environment where nature and technology could

Duet, could dance together to create these products.

So just a few examples with a silk pavilion.

We've had a couple of pavilions made of silk.

And the second one, which was the bigger one, which ended up at the Museum of Modern Art with my friend and incredible mentor, Paolo Antonelli.

That pavilion was six meters tall and it was produced by silkworms.

And there we had different types of templates.

There were physical templates that were basically just these water-soluble meshes upon which the silkworms were spinning.