Abstract: The Art of Design (TV Series) Neri Oxman: Bio-Architecture (2019) User Reviews

Mother nature the world

[mohamadacma · 8/10 · 14 November 2019]

This episode featured a different mind of architect, one what's takan it upon himself to integrate nature in his designs. The use of plastic and synthetic material has harmed the environment enough, and it is time,now to revert back to nature. Lots of designs were featured in which the majority of the contribution us attributed to bees and worm silk. Not to mention the 3d glass printing machine that would make building of glass more common and customized to our preferences in the future. Particularly important is The idea of the circle aka the meeting of Einstein and Picasso, that combine science(knowledge), enineering(utility of the knowledge), design(communicating the utility aka producing a culture around it), and last art( to challenge our perception of the world, and question our culture norms). It is the combination of the these themes in this bio-architechture design that makes her stand out as a creative and visionary leader in this domain of design. She internalized that Hebrew saying that goes along the lines of: " all things are expected,in so far as we dare to make the change ourselves". She chose to live viewing everything as a miracle as opposed to seeing nothing miraculous

Fascinating

[maggie-oherlihy · 10/10 · 5 July 2020]

While I enjoyed the entire Abstract series, the episode on Neri Oxman was by far the most interesting to me. An astonishing human.

The Defining Moment

[joeb-13 · 10/10 · 2 June 2023]

The defining quote (for me) from this episode resonated at 6:54 "(at any moment in time) I give permission to myself and to any member of the team to change the ideas and to change the project- as they go".

Personally (for me at least) this is hard to swallow. Since we are ever learning and will not always meet our wants

I hope that others can also find their inspiring moment that this asks and gives tools to explore what can be our future.

Moments are the confluence of our sole and what inspires us to move forward which may be merely a perceived mark in our timeline. Our, because it is ours .

This show introduced me to transcendentalism and Thoreau, if only for his writing on Waldo pond. But I can and have related to his quote without knowing " You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Salute to S2e2 Neri Oxman

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I found so many examples in this episode of how one can think outside a box, some might say sacrifice something to give more and be effective in a team - learning from bees and nature as an example and blending with art and what nature makes beautiful to us.

I love this series but..

[iangoldsmith-67780 · 4/10 · 17 October 2019]

This is the only episode I've seen so far where the episode focuses too much on the person and not enough on the work. Neri is obviously beautiful and knows it and there's just too much "look how beautiful Neri is" in this episode. I'd have liked to have seen more of the work and reasoning behind it.

Lost Focus

[kingmelavin9-228-452079 · 2/10 · 11 November 2019]

I watched the entire episode and I still don't know what Neri does. Quite a shame because the little parts they show us seem quite awesome. Worst episode in the series.

By far the worst episode..

[florentynatkrupa · 2/10 · 17 November 2019]

Somehow seemingly the most interesting topic in the series managed to have the most boring episode. While I'm sure Neri's past and ideology influences her a lot, it doesn't tell us what it is she does; the focus on her person made the episode seem more a fan film of Neri than a documentary. A shame, because the snippets they showed of her team working looked fascinating.

Very bad documentary

[lesheque · 2/10 · 13 October 2020]

If Ms Oxman actually is such an exceptional person as the authors of this episode claim than it does a lot of harm to her work and image. After watching the episode I barely have an idea what she and her team actually do. The only what I remember is perfectly applied lipstick and load of motivational blah, blah, blah. Sad.

Lost its way

[technour · 4/10 · 18 May 2020]

I just watched the previous episode with Olafur Eliasson that was amazing ! It shows us how Olafur works and he detailed his works on light and shades with a small 5 minutes talking about "where Olafur came from".

I tought I would have the same thing with Neri and I waited and waited but it never came. The moment I knew they made this episode completely wrong is when they ave us the "Queen Bee" parallel with Neri. Oh my god! I was out at that moment.

I'm not here idolize her. I would love to discover her work and that she take time to talk to us about it not to take us on a trip to her home town.

Frustrating Episode

[robinhuber · 3/10 · 10 February 2021]

I can't help feeling that Neri is an extremely privileged person who never had to work hard for anything. Her overly precious language and comportment, the amount of attention she clearly puts into manicuring and presenting a perfect image of the stereotypical feminine ideal. But what is she actually working on or accomplishing? What does she bring other than being a pretty Pollyanna with a lucky upbringing? None of it made sense to me as a whole.

Perfect if you wanna know less about design

[lampadaire20002 · 2/10 · 3 May 2023]

Each time i was about to understand what exactly this terrifyingly perfect woman was doing for a living , there was an ellipse of some kind making it less clear... Most of the time the ellipses are a scene of the woman spouting whether so called out-of-the-box mysterious clichés, whether complete nonsense exposed shamelessly under the "artistic" label. Other time ellipses too when we have to watch unexpectedly scenes of her "normal" life , who would be totally boring if that woman was not strangely looking so feminine, handsome to the weird level that she practically look like a designed IA trying desperatly to make sense to us, simple humans (who don't exactly know what "design" refer to, thanks to this tv show) .

In the first episode ,the artist Eliasson was saying sometime things that looked like BullS**t to me , but his works were, if not completely clear , at least understandable, and often beautiful. In this episode confusion is permanent and you just feel like watching a top-model scientist coming straight from an old Bret Easton Ellis Novel, and one thing is certain : you never learn anything about anything, and the whole thing looks like a giant scam...

but maybe, it's because of the way the documentary is made.. Maybe this woman, instead of being a gigantic artistico-scientific fraud , produce beautiful , helpful and useful things : she desserves maybe another (clear) documentary to let us know.

Imagineering?

[pandapanda123 · 3/10 · 20 July 2023]

A documentary about a fascinating venture inside MIT: an attempt to design and build the way the natural world does, discarding plastics, metals, and the concept of the assembly line along the way. That's really, really interesting if you ask me, but we don't get to see how much progress is actually being made. Instead, this documentary spends most of its time presenting a beautiful person floating through the world, immaculately dressed and made up, beautiful hair in abundance, while motivational platitudes fall effortlessly to the ground. Her project team pop up now and again, also beautiful, as does a couple of amazing projects (involving silk worms and bees), but the story is never completed, we're always left with a couple of questions: Did I miss something? So what happened next? And even: Is this for real or is it some sort of scam? All of the people featured here must be incredibly talented, but the film maker seems to have taken the wrong path.