New York's MoMA is staging an exhibition showcasing Neri Oxman's research at MIT Media Lab with projects that "challenge the status quo of architectural design".
Neri Oxman: Material Ecology contains seven key projects from the American-Israeli's Mediated Matter Group research department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Organised by Museum of Modern Art senior curator Paola Antonelli and curatorial assistant Anna Burckhardt, the exhibition marks the first time Oxman's work is shown as a collection.
"The significance of this exhibit for me and for my team is enormous," Oxman told Dezeen.

"Our work has developed for almost 20 years, from scientific inquiry to design exploration and vice versa," she added. "We have learned a ton." Oxman came up with the name, Material Ecology, as a framework for understanding her work ? which combines engineering, art, science and technology to explore new materialities.
"It is the definition of ecology ? the branch in biology that deals with the relations between organisms and their physical surroundings ? applied to all things man-made or human-designed," she said.
"Biology is far more refined and sophisticated than material practices involved in polymers, concrete, steel and glass. But what if we could change that by creating new technologies that can vary the physical properties of matter at a resolution and sophistication that approaches that of the natural world"...