Saturday, September 11, 2010

SmartSurfaces, Biomimetics, and Pandora

Hi, and welcome to my first blog experience.  This blog comes as a class requirement for SmartSurfaces.  It is a transdisciplinary, hands-on, think-tank of artists, designers, architects, and material scientists from the University of Michigan.

A "Smart Surface" is a boundary object that can observe, interpret, and respond to the environments that it separates.  Biomimetics is the design application of systems and processes found in nature.  Pandora is the first woman in Greek mythology.  The gods gave her many gifts, including the famous "Pandora's box".  The contents were mysterious.  Hope was inside.

What if Pandora's box was simply a reference to Earth itself?

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