Neri Oxman announces formation of OXMAN Lab research practice in NYC

Neri Oxman, the former MIT professor and winner of the 2018 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, has launched a new operation called OXMAN Lab and based in New York City. Promising a "radical new species of design practice," Oxman, who is collaborating with Foster + Partners on the realization of its 36,000-square-foot space on 11th Avenue in Manhattan, described it as a "design and innovation company that creates new technologies, products, and environments across a range of scales and applications, from the molecular to the urban scale." Image: courtesy of OXMANInitiatives will be pursued in three main project areas and their corresponding platforms. Throughout, a press announcement for the OXMAN Lab states, the project will advocate for "synergy between biology and technology, moving towards products and buildings that are designed for the immediate and long-term well-being of human civilization and the natural world." Photo: Nicholas Calcott, Courtesy of OXMANThe first, Oo (pron...

Neri Oxman announces formation of OXMAN Lab research practice in NYC

Neri Oxman, the former MIT professor and winner of the 2018 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, has launched a new operation called OXMAN Lab and based in New York City.

Promising a "radical new species of design practice," Oxman, who is collaborating with Foster + Partners on the realization of its 36,000-square-foot space on 11th Avenue in Manhattan, described it as a "design and innovation company that creates new technologies, products, and environments across a range of scales and applications, from the molecular to the urban scale."

Image: courtesy of OXMAN

Initiatives will be pursued in three main project areas and their corresponding platforms. Throughout, a press announcement for the OXMAN Lab states, the project will advocate for "synergy between biology and technology, moving towards products and buildings that are designed for the immediate and long-term well-being of human civilization and the natural world."

Photo: Nicholas Calcott, Courtesy of OXMAN

The first, Oo (pron...