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The Mediated Matter group focuses on Nature-inspired design and design-inspired Nature. They create biologically inspired and engineered design fabrication tools and technologies aiming to enhance the relation between natural and man-made environments. I admire this project a lot because I think humans should try to harmonize with nature more. They use algorithms in order to enhance the relation between natural and man-made environments by achieving high degrees of design customization, environmental performance integration, and material efficiency. The work they are doing is very interesting. It is very cool how they are pretty much creating materials that can only be made through a use of an algorithm. An publication by Mediated Matter is titled “Hybrid Living Materials: Digital Design and Fabrication of 3D Multimaterial Structures with Programmable Biohybrid Surfaces.” Even the title alone brings lots of curiosity about what they are creating.
