{"title":"Heather Davis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeather Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the dynamic intersections of art, culture, and technology with a thoughtful and critical eye. Her work delves into the ways materiality and ecology shape contemporary creative practices, inviting readers to reconsider traditional boundaries within the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on interdisciplinary inquiry, her writing engages with emerging conversations in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, offering insightful perspectives that challenge and inspire. Readers can expect a compelling blend of theory and practice, illuminating the evolving relationship between nature, technology, and artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"neri-oxman-mediated-matter-by-neri-oxman-9781633451056","title":"Neri Oxman: Mediated Matter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first survey on the interdisciplinary biodesign genius of Neri Oxman, pioneer of \"material ecology\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout her 20-year career, Neri Oxman has invented not only new ideas for materials, buildings and construction processes, but also new frameworks for interdisciplinary—and interspecies—collaborations. She coined the term \"material ecology\" to describe her process of producing techniques and objects informed by the structural, systemic and aesthetic wisdom of nature, from the shells of crustaceans to the flow of human breathing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGroundbreaking for its solid technological and scientific basis, its rigorous and daring experimentation, its visionary philosophy and its unquestionable attention to formal elegance, Oxman's work operates at the intersection of biology, engineering, architecture and artistic design, material science and computer science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeri Oxman: Mediated Matter\u003c\/i\u003e—designed by Irma Boom and published to accompany a midcareer retrospective of Oxman's work—highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the designer's practice. It demonstrates how Oxman's contributions allow us to question and redefine the idea of modernism—a concept in constant evolution—and of organic design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the projects featured in the book and exhibition include the Silk Pavilion, which harnesses silkworms' ability to generate a 3-D cocoon out of a single thread of silk in order to create architectural constructions; Aguahoja, a water-based fabrication platform that prints structures made out of different biopolymers; and Glass, an additive manufacturing technology for 3-D printing optically transparent glass structures at architectural dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471306375404,"sku":"9781633451056","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781633451056-neri-oxman-mediated-matter.jpg?v=1775237621"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/heather-davis.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}