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Magazine Nature’s architect: explore MIT’s ‘wearable mythologies’ in pictures
November 16 2012
By Madhumita Venkataramanan | 16 November 12 | WIRED UK
"Neri Oxman, founder of MIT's Material Ecology Design Lab, transposed the super powers of mythical creatures into designs for a series of garments realised by advanced 3D printer and exhibited in Paris.
In May this year, the Centre Pompidou in Paris opened MIT designer Oxman's exhibition Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not Yet. The collection consists of 18 pieces that Oxman calls "wearable mythologies": objects you can wear to augment your ordinary, human capabilities. Inspired by Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges's Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Zoology, each of the prototypes is based on a mythical beast and encapsulates a magical ability such as the capacity to fly, or the secret of invincibility...."
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/11/features/natures-architect