Monica Chang – Looking Outwards- 03

Neri Oxman and MIT develop a collection of programmable bio-composites for Digital Fabrication called Aguahoja. They developed Aguahoja in response to the cumbersome, plastic consumption occurring globally which has been intoxicating our planet. With this, they hope to create a solution that corrupts this toxic cycle of plastic by uniting the “made” and nature to produce an organic environment that can be constructed and deconstructed without harming the earth’s soil.

This collection is digitally designed and robotically manufactured out of the most available materials on earth- materials within trees, insect exoskeletons , apples, and bones- in hopes of avoiding depleting more of Earth’s materials.

Although the structures are all built from the same components, the structural makeup and its purpose in an environment vary.

I admire this piece because of its insightfulness towards the world and its current condition. The amount of research and intricate pieces created for this project intrigues me. It’s nice to know that there definitely is a way that we can avoid polluting our planet even further without changing anything about halting our momentum for modernizing the world.