Designing with Nature: Neri Oxman's Vision

Neri Oxman is a designer, architect, and thinker who refuses to stay

in a single category. Working at the intersection of biology, art, engineering,

and technology, she asks a radical question: What if we designed not just objects,

but relationships with nature? Born in Israel to architect parents, Oxman took a different

path, blending scientific curiosity with artistic vision. At MIT,

she led the Mediated Matter Group, creating things like glass structures printed by robots,

and silk pavilions woven by silkworms. For her, design is not a blueprint — it’s

a conversation with life itself. Her philosophy, “Material Ecology,” proposes that instead