Overview
Mediated Matter is the first comprehensive overview of Neri Oxman’s groundbreaking design work. Oxman has forged a singular career across design, science, and technology over the past twenty years that includes, notably, founding the field of material ecology. Trained as both a medical doctor and an architect, she brings to design a spirit of inquiry and experimentation that includes a future-forward approach to materials—from silkworm thread to automated microrobots to a water-based fabrication platform that prints structures made from biopolymers. In her work at the MIT Media Lab, she designed products and buildings as interactive entities that are environmentally informed, biologically augmented, computationally grown, and digitally manufactured.
Through richly detailed diagrams, explanatory texts, process documents, and breathtaking photographs, the book examines the six primary topics—biopolymers, organic comb, natural fibers, vitreous solids, programmable matter, and pigments—at the heart of Oxman’s key projects as well as their potential for use in the built environment. Scientifically rigorous and abundantly imagined, this novel publication, like its author, is a future-facing manifesto for a true symbiosis of nature, humans, and design.
This book title, Mediated Matter (Design and Invention in the New Biological Age), ISBN: 9780262049177, by Neri Oxman, published by MIT Press (November 18, 2025) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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