Looking Outwards – 11 – Joanne Chui

Neri Oxman is an architect, designer, inventor, and a professor at the MIT Media Lab. Her research is focused on how computation design, digital fabrication, material science, and biology intersect, thus coining the term Material Ecology.

I was interested in this project, Mushtari, which is a 3D printed wearable sculpture that supports the flow of cyanobacteria that converts sunlight into sucrose. It’s both indexical and symbolic of the digestive tract, in which it looks and functions as an organ system for absorbing nutrients, digesting biomass, and expelling waste.

https://neri.media.mit.edu/projects/details/mushtari.html#prettyPhoto