Transporation: The 21st Century City Bike

Mobility is going through significant change, where more options are being introduced specifically in city like Washington DC. Experimental projects of dockless bikes, electric scooters of various types are competing for adoption by city commuters.



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Design Innovator: Neri Oxman

Dr. Oxman, a 42-year-old Israeli-born architect, computational designer and artist who is the recipient of this year’s Cooper Hewitt Design award for interaction design. 

Article: Who is Neri Oxman

A new frontier marrying the technological advances of computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication (otherwise known as 3-D printing) to produce compostable structures, glass objects that vary their optical and structural properties, and garments made from a single piece of silk fabric.

Material ecology marries the technological advances of computational design, synthetic biology and 3-D printing to produce startling-looking, multifunctional structures, like these sheaves of chitin, a compostable material derived from shrimp shells. In the foreground, silk worms are spinning on tiny platforms. 

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