LO-Computational Fabrication

I looked at the silk pavilion project by The Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab in 2020. The thing I find inspiring about this project is how their team organically combine the algorithm calculations of digital media and biological features of silkworm. By mimicking the way natural worms form their silk, their team efficiently brings beauty of nature into something that’s created manually. I believe that nature is not only the source of our information and our living foundation, it also provides examples for us to learn from for further development. This pavilion project reminds me of biomimicry buildings that save energies by means learned from insects, plants, and other creatures from nature. By doing the series of work like this, it brings the connection between human and nature closer, and art and technology into another level.