布拉德•皮特新女友竟是麻省理工副教授!
Best known as an architect, designer, and artist, Neri Oxman has been making headlines for a completely different reason lately. Our June 2016 Technology Issue cover subject and the actor Brad Pitt have shared the media spotlight in recent days after allegedly igniting a romance. In an attempt to shift the attention from her supposed resemblance to actor Angelina Jolie to her numerous talents and accomplishments, we’ve provided a brief introduction to the Israeli creative. 1. Coined the term “Material Ecology”. Put more simply: It’s a process by which products and buildings are considered in the context of their environments, and biologically informed by, with, and for nature. 2. Directs a Mediated Matter research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, where she is an associate professor. The group includes 25 affiliates and visiting students pursuing computational design, architecture, marine science, molecular biology, and physics. Together, they conduct research addressing synthetic biology and art, and apply the results to design. The research group has built 3-D printers capable of printing biological matter such as chitin , the material that composes the shells of crustaceans, and non-biological matter that takes cues from the natural world. 2. 她在麻省理工学院媒体实验室担任副教授并管理一个介导物质研究小组。这个小组里有25位研究运算设计、建筑学、海洋科学、分子生物学、和物理学等方向的成员和访问学生。他们一起研究合成生物学和艺术,并把研究结果应用到设计中。该研究小组还设计了能打印生物体的3D打印机,例如构成甲壳类动物外壳的壳质以及模仿自然界而设计的非生物物质。 3. Oxman grew up in Israel, in the city of Haifa, and her parents, Robert and Rivka, were well known in the design scene there, namely for their theoretical and computational work. 4. Oxman began her academic career as a pre-med student at the Hebrew University, before dropping out to attend the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for two years. She then transferred to the Architectural Association, graduating in 2004. A year later, Oxman enrolled in the architecture PHD program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 5. In 2014, she designed prototypes for a clothing collection, titled “Wanderers.” The wearable avant-garde pieces were designed to hold microbes that could keep its user alive in hostile environments. She and her group at MIT later created three series of death masks in collaboration with 3D-printing company Stratasys that integrate data to create visually stunning designs. 6. Oxman has won 43 awards in total for her work, including the Cultural Leader award from the World Economic Forum in 2016, Earth Award for Future Crucial Design in 2009, The MIT Collier Medal in 2016, and the Vilcek Prize in Design, given to immigrants who’ve contributed to American society, in 2014. 7. Oxman’s face was projected on the ceiling of Grand Central Station in September of 2017. 8. Oxman’s designs have been shown in institutions around the world, including the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and the Design Museum in London, among others. |