Neri Oxman’s design lab, OXMAN, has been working for many years on Oº, a material integrally composed of polyhydroxyalkanoates (a type of thermoplastic polymer), used to manufacture shoes and clothes with digital tools. The fabric of organic origin h

The Guardian   Michael Sainato   Neri Oxman, the wife of Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who accused Claudine Gay of being a plagiarist and led calls for her resignation as Harvard president, is now facing allegations of plagiarism herself. Neri Oxman, a prominent former pro

The Art Newspaper   Helen Stoilas   The designer has employed natural processes and used materials from plants and shellfish for her exhibition ‘Material Ecology’ at the Museum of Modern Art. An army of 17,000 silkworms have been busily at work in Padua, Italy, creating Silk Pavilion I

Neri Oxman   Since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts framing the imagination of designers and builders who have been taught to t

María Mallo   Biomimicry imitates nature to solve human problems. Before the surge of parametric design and digital fabrication, architecture sought inspiration from nature, and it did so in different ways: through the study of specific natural forms, by reproduci