*Okay, that scheme probably needs a buzzword that's been boiled down to two syllables, but it's still the nifty. It's what Gaudi and Frei Otto used to do by, like, throwing sheets of flexible stuff over pointy sticks. Except done with MIT hardware.
*I definitely need more computationally enabled membranes in my life. Like, I'd love to go to a PopTech in Camden where they'd removed the music hall and the fold down chairs, and there was nothing but, like, a wavy technicolor tent and a thousand hammocks.
Neri Oxman: On Designing Form from PopTech on Vimeo.
*I don't like to pick on prominent women for their dress sense, for there's something rather stupid about doing that: "Yes, yes, she's trying to save the planet, but look at that pants suit!" Do remarks of this kind help the debate? However, chic activity of the kind in this video should be somehow politely encouraged. Because Neri Oxman just looks great, doesn't she? Wowsers! One gets so tired of mainstream architects in their hornrims and svelte black ensembles!
*Not to mention the PopTech attendees themselves! Along with the tensile membranes, all future PopTech attendees should be required to wear LED-lit, computationally-enabled harlequin costumes during the PopTech event. Not forever! No, I'm not saying that! Just till the Depression ends.
