Nature x Humanity

We are pleased to present our documentary entitled Nature x Humanity. The documentary debuts at a critical juncture when the anthropomass-the mass produced by humans-has exceeded that of the living biomass on our planet. Through the lens of five projects and their related material systems, we propose five tenets for a new Material Ecology: glass, polymers, fibers, pigments, and cellular solids. Motivated to unite the grown and the made, we demonstrate how each material system and the technology invented to shape it embodies and advances Nature’s way while continuing to promote human progress.
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CREDITS
NATURE X HUMANITY, 2020
Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group
Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass.
Milo lab, Weizmann Institute of Science; Nature, 2020.
Writer and Narrator: Neri Oxman
Composers: Jeremy Flower & Osvaldo Golijov
Producer: Kelly Egorova
Colorist: Nick Sanders
Recording Mixer: Sebastian Fritze
Editor: Carson Davis Brown
Assistant Editors: Anran Li & Lyle Tachikawa
Credit score from Flamingo by Osvaldo Golijov
Originally composed for TWIXT by Francis Ford Coppola
Additional footage courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center
Directed by Neri Oxman & Carson Davis-Brown
An earlier version of this documentary was presented at Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference, 2020.
© 2021. Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group. All rights reserved.