The New Materialism

In the future, our homes won't be built, our sculptures won't be carved, our clothes won't be sewn. In the post-modern world they'll be designed and grown in genetics labs. Or at least this is what well known science fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling posits in his speculative essay for Abitare, the New Materialism, in response to the organic artwork of Neri Oxman (pictured above). Loaded with ideas of the birth, life and death of one potential future for the arts, the short work is a great read that both speculates as to and eulogizes what is to come.