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From the Ted Talk by Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology
Unscramble the Blue Letters
But you don't find hgmoeonuos material assemblies in nature. Take human skin, for example. Our facial sknis are thin with lagre pores. Our back skins are thicker, with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same skin: no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gulldaary varies its functionality by vnryiag elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view, the split personality of every designer and architect operating today between the chisel and the gene, between machine and organism, between assembly and growth, between Henry Ford and Charles Darwin. These two worldviews, my left brain and right brian, asalinys and shneiysts, will play out on the two screens behind me. My work, at its simplest level, is about uinnitg these two worldviews, moving away from assembly and closer into growth.
Open Cloze
But you don't find __________ material assemblies in nature. Take human skin, for example. Our facial _____ are thin with _____ pores. Our back skins are thicker, with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same skin: no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that _________ varies its functionality by _______ elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view, the split personality of every designer and architect operating today between the chisel and the gene, between machine and organism, between assembly and growth, between Henry Ford and Charles Darwin. These two worldviews, my left brain and right _____, ________ and _________, will play out on the two screens behind me. My work, at its simplest level, is about _______ these two worldviews, moving away from assembly and closer into growth.
Solution
- skins
- brain
- homogenous
- uniting
- synthesis
- analysis
- varying
- large
- gradually
Original Text
But you don't find homogenous material assemblies in nature. Take human skin, for example. Our facial skins are thin with large pores. Our back skins are thicker, with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same skin: no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view, the split personality of every designer and architect operating today between the chisel and the gene, between machine and organism, between assembly and growth, between Henry Ford and Charles Darwin. These two worldviews, my left brain and right brain, analysis and synthesis, will play out on the two screens behind me. My work, at its simplest level, is about uniting these two worldviews, moving away from assembly and closer into growth.
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