In The Future Buildings Will Be Grown Not Built // Neril Oxman

Neril Oxman Studio: Organic Buildings

At Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab from 2010 to 2021, Ms. Oxman founded and directed the Mediated Matter group, a team researching in areas including computational design, digital fabrication, materials science and synthetic biology. There, she created a field she calls material ecology.

Neril Oxman Studio: OXMAN

OXMAN proposes the creation of design solutions by, for, and with Nature while advancing humanity. This holistic approach demands that we design across scales and kingdoms for systems-level impact.

Categorical delineations between climate change and global pandemics, loss of biodiversity and loss of empathy for one another give way to authoring systems that address manifold challenges. In doing so, we open ourselves up to moving beyond mere maintenance toward the radical betterment of Nature.