The Earth Awards recognize design that offers groundbreaking solutions to the ecological and social challenges of the 21st century. The 2009 recipient is Neri Oxman, acknowledged for her work in interdisciplinary design and design research.
From her profile at Materialecology:
Neri Oxman is an architect and researcher whose work attempts to establish new forms of experimental design and novel processes of material practice at the interface of design, computer science, material engineering and ecology. A graduate of the AA School of Architecture and previously a medical scholar at the Hebrew University and the Technion Institute of Technology, she is currently based at MIT where she is a presidential research fellow and a PhD candidate in Design Computation. Transcending disciplinary and professional boundaries, Oxman’s work pioneers Material Computation as a design paradigm beyond typological expression. She promotes the aesthetics of material formation and behavior as a scientific contribution to ecological activism.
Oxman on performance-driven design:
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