Yesterday we had the privilege of welcoming renowned physicist and Nobel Laureate, Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov to Foster + Partners’ London campus for an inspiring talk on ‘Materials for the Future.’ Professor Novoselov, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010, alongside Andre Gei, for their groundbreaking work on graphene, discussed designing materials with dynamic, biologically inspired properties—such as self-healing, memory functions and adaptability to external conditions. His presentation opened up discussions on creating artificial living systems and their transformative applications. “Today’s materials are predominantly defined by their properties, which are independent of time and environment. In many cases, such stability is useful, as it makes the behaviour of devices based on such materials robust and predictable. But what if we had a free hand to design any materials we want, with any properties we want – what kind of materials from our dreams we would design? One of the dreams are materials which have some characteristics of biological systems: those with self-healing capabilities, with memory functions, those which can evolve differently depending on external conditions. I will be discussing the methodologies to design such artificial living systems and the areas of their applications.” #InnovationInDesign #FutureMaterials #SustainableInnovation #Graphene #Architecture #Sustainability #SmartMaterials
It is brilliant to imagine that we can design our materials not only our spaces. It may be a game changer for recycled material usage as well in construction. The material specifications based method needs to adopt to this kind of innovation to open up a new trend in architecture and construction.
Methodology is the study of methods? Perhaps it is important to get a good grasp of the English language to start with. Do you mean methods??
Thanks for sharing
I would love to listen to that!
Interesting event
Consultant Technical Lead, Design Management, Transport Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Master Planning, Urban Design
4 天前Humans are not knowledgeable enough to be able to grow new materials from scratch! We can not grow a tree from dust nor an animal ! We do not know the full composition of anything or how it actually works. We pretend we know and even pretend we know part of the answers! This is a very dangerous arrogant place to be. We still specify and use ferrous materials in salt laden urban coastal environments and do not know how to stop them from rusting and deteriorating! Do you really want to trust humans to produce another material like plastic and unleash its wrath on the environment!