Highlights from week three of Dezeen 15 include Neri Oxman unveiling details of her new "Bell Labs of the 21st century"
The final week of the Dezeen 15 digital festival saw former MIT professor Neri Oxman unveil details of her new Manhattan studio, while Aric Chen called for the death of manifestos.
Throughout the festival, a total of 15 creatives presented ideas for how to change the world over the next 15 years. Running from 1 to 19 November, it featured a different manifesto and live interview each weekday. See the line-up here.
Read on for some of the highlights of the third week:
Neri Oxman by Noah Kalina
Neri Oxman launches new studio to "contribute to a better world"
Day 15: Architect and designer Oxman used her Dezeen 15 manifesto and an accompanying movie to set out the vision for her new studio.
"We envision it as a kind of a Bell Labs of the 21st century," she said in a live interview, comparing it to the legendary innovation department of US telecoms giant AT&T. The department is regarded as one of the most important research labs of the twentieth century, pioneering the development of technologies including lasers, transistors and photovoltaics.
Oxman spoke live to Dezeen from the unfinished studio space at 787 11th Avenue, which she said will host "an architectural atelier, a wet lab, a biomechatronics shop and electronics shop and a machine shop".
"It will be a place where interdisciplinary design across scales, across problem contexts and across domains can take place," said Oxman, who previously led the Mediated Matter Group at MI...
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