#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 146 minutes
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OXMAN Website: https://oxman.com/
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(09:06) - Biomass vs anthropomass
(23:27) - Computational templates
(43:42) - Biological hero organisms
(54:42) - Engineering with bacteria
(1:02:59) - Plant communication
(1:16:22) - Albert Einstein letter
(1:19:44) - Beauty
(1:24:40) - Faith
(1:34:26) - Flaws
(1:54:15) - Extinction
(2:05:22) - Alien life
(2:09:12) - Music
(2:10:39) - Movies
(2:15:11) - Advice for young people
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Nerry Oxman, an engineer, scientist, designer, architect, |
| 0:05.9 | artist, and one of the kindest, most thoughtful, and brilliant human beings of Evergarden to |
| 0:10.8 | know. |
| 0:11.8 | For a long time, she led the mediated matter group at MIT that did research and build incredible |
| 0:17.7 | stuff at the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, material science, |
| 0:23.6 | and synthetic biology, doing so at all scales, from the micro scale to the building scale. |
| 0:29.7 | Now she's continuing this work at a very new company for now called Oxman, looking |
| 0:35.1 | to revolutionize how humans design and build products, working with nature, not against |
| 0:41.2 | it. |
| 0:42.2 | On a personal note, let me say that Nerry has for a long time been a friend, and someone |
| 0:47.0 | who in my darker moments has always been there with the note of kindness and support. |
| 0:52.3 | I am forever grateful to her. |
| 0:55.0 | She's a brilliant and a beautiful human being. |
| 0:57.8 | Oh, and she also brought me a present, worn piece by Tolstoy and meditations by Marcus |
| 1:05.8 | Arrelius. |
| 1:07.2 | It doesn't get better than that. |
| 1:10.2 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
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