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Neri Oxman, Beast, 2010, Museum of Science, Boston
Beast
Neri Oxman, in collaboration with Professor Craig Carter.
One of Neri Oxman’s best-known works, a chaise lounge called Beast, adjusts its shape, flexibility and softness to fit each person who sits in it. Made from eight materials of varying flexibility, it hugs your body, reacting to each movement; its 3-D printed surface responds to skin pressure measurements and new multijet matrix technology deposits materials in different areas of the chair so it gives where flexibility is needed and stays stiff where support is required. One design magazine compared it to a ‘really excellent lover’. “We’re not only designing form,” says Oxman. “We’re also designing behavior, and that’s what I find so incredibly promising.”
Descriptions drawn from accounts in Esquire and Dexigner.
Neri Oxman is Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Science at the MIT Media Lab where she directs the Mediated Matter Research Group. Her work can also be seen at the MoMA.
