[Applause]
Paris 1900 Los Angeles 2017 somewhere
along the way we forgot who we are
designing cities for are we designing
cities for people or are we designing
city for machines the world is
organizing in an unprecedented way more
and more people want to live in cities
economic and cultural hubs where the
action happens places like New York San
Francisco London Paris Shanghai Hong
Kong Singapore but there is a
consequence to that as millions of
people move to cities space is becoming
scarce and of course expensive and how
does that affect you how does that
affect that many people the young
entrepreneur
the single mother the empty nester the
working-class family how does that
affect you you have to make a choice you
either move as far as you need to from
the city center in order to afford a
place think about suburban sprawl or if
you wanna stay in the city you need to
downsize in a square footage as the
price of a square foot in places like
Boston San Francisco or New York it’s
already well beyond a thousand dollars
the problem with those two things those
two options is that they both come with
compromises compromises in your quality
of life in the first one apart from the
fact that it is not the most sustainable
way of growing as a city or as a country
you are giving up a Prius amount of time
through commuting every day and on the
second of course you are much more
conscious about your footprint but you
are giving up agree
amount of functionality no one really
wants to live in a tiny prison cell what
if there was a different way what if I
told you that our conception of a space
is wrong it has actually been wrong for
a long long time bigger larger space
does not mean more functionality that is
based in a very old paradigm where we
linearly relate a square footage and
functionality the square footage has
become that magical number that people
used to tell you how much functionality
you have the more square footage the
more functionality and that is so so
wrong all a square feet is not born
equal and I’m gonna prove that to you we
are going to use an example we are going
to use as an example a residential
studio apartment we could have chosen
another urban space because have chosen
an office a hotel room a dorm but let’s
use a residential history apartment now
I’m not talking about the studio
apartment from Sex and the City let me
bring you back to reality the typical
story apartment in New York right now
looks more like that and if you are
living in one of these apartments you
are probably having one of these three
problems or maybe all of them number one
lack of the vision of the space that is
the main reason why couples don’t want
to move to strips because it’s very
difficult to have two counteracting
simultaneous activities like sleeping or
watching TV we even found out throughout
our research interesting things like
what happens when the couple gets angry
probably you guessed right one of them
has no alternative but to go to the
bathroom number two lack of a proper
living area or dining area this is a
typical situation in which your studio
feels like a hotel room it feels like
and if you’re gonna have you know a
social gathering or a business meeting
not only is dysfunctional but it becomes
pretty pretty awkward a number three
lack of storage believe it or not we
still have a lot of physical things and
one of the last studies about apartment
rents told us that the second most
wanted feature in apartments nowadays
right after high-speed Internet is
walking closets now good luck trying to
fit are walking closer in a space like
that one by the way these three problems
are not fixed I just invented but
actually the Urban Land Institute
published a report that highlighted this
very same three issues but some of you
may be thinking I don’t go to plus
engineers you know designers architects
have been thinking about these problems
for a long time I’m not trying to come
up with solutions indeed the problem is
that all these solutions come with
compromises to the first problem of
division of space enter the junior
bedroom a partition wall on a studio it
solves a problem by creating another
problem because half of a time when you
are not sleeping your living room just
becomes half the size for number two
lack of a proper living area welcome
back Murphy beds from our grandpa’s home
now this is a good example of something
that is great for occasional use for
guests but it’s pretty horrible for
daily use because it forces you to go
through a ritual through the cognitive
load or threat of transformation adding
the steps to your daily life and as yet
Bezos from Amazon said what people have
found over and over again is that when
you remove the tiniest friction from
daily activities to make people’s lives
a number three to the lack of a storage
either you build a walk-in closet we
talked about which takes half of your
space for only 20 minutes of use or what
developers are building our storage
rooms like this one where you can pay 50
a hundred a hundred fifty dollars a
month for a smallish storage box like
this so the point here is that all
solutions
techniques don’t really solve new
problems but what if we could think
about a world where spaces furniture
walls had superpowers we could go back
to the same challenges and think about
what could happen or what if your
bedroom or your living room could shrink
or expand depending on activities what
if you could summon your bedroom or your
office or your walking closet what if
all of this could happen with just a
finger touch or a gesture or boys mobile
phone control what if all of this could
have been even autonomously when a space
understands the activities that are
happening what if there could be apps
that make your space your furniture your
walls talk to other smart devices like
lights or thermostats think about a new
space paradigm where spaces adapt to us
and our activities in the most
effortless and magical way instead of us
adapting to a spaces for those is
skeptical other let me tell you that we
are designing these systems like
household products reliable design to
endure thousands of cycles even designed
to go into manual mode if the power goes
down State Engineer to a stop in any
dangerous or hazardous situation and of
course cost-effective decoupling the
robotics from the furniture so we can
cost optimize the robotics and allow all
kinds of furniture solutions on top from
the very cheap to the very expensive but
what is even better is the fact that
this is not a dream this is not a
prototype this is actually a product
that a company called Ori that my team
and I founded from MIT is launching in
the coming months
and as the origin of its name origami we
are talking about approachable design
that takes different forms and different
functionalities with elegance and beauty
but what is even better than that
is that I just show you one example I
will show you one product and one
product is not going to solve all the
problems of all the spaces and all
people we need to go a level deeper we
need to think about tools we need to
think about a kit of parts of robotics
mechanics electronics software that
allows to create many more solutions
hundreds thousands of solutions for
different space problems my team and I
got very inspired by what MIT and Lego
created a few decades ago they created a
toolkit brains muscles skeletons that
were modular and that could allow kids
to create amazing engineering marvels so
many different possibilities with the
same backbone technologies now think
about Legos for grown-ups
think about you the designer the
architect the furniture maker having
access to tools robotic tools that allow
you to create all kinds of solutions
bets that slide the drop from the
ceiling tables the move around even
couches that is like magic carpets
solutions that even my team and I
haven’t even thought of
think about modular standardized
components thousands of product
possibilities and with those tools in
your hands now you can go back to
problems to urban problems it’s not only
the studio apartment in New York City it
can be the family of four people trying
to make four hundred square feet work in
Hong Kong or it could be the startup
company in New York City
that kind of really figured out how to
fit them into the space of type or the
business traveler that goes around the
world
I’m good love to have that room double
as an office space throughout the day a
new generation of his faces powered by
origin so in a nutshell think about
urban space being too valuable and
unresponsive think about all the
solutions not really solving new
problems think about what could happen
if furniture walls spaces had
superpowers think about modular
architectural robotics or maybe
something I’ve been non-friendly think
Ori
Paris 1900 Los Angeles 2017 somewhere
along the way we forgot who we are
designing cities for are we designing
cities for people or are we designing
city for machines the world is
organizing in an unprecedented way more
and more people want to live in cities
economic and cultural hubs where the
action happens places like New York San
Francisco London Paris Shanghai Hong
Kong Singapore but there is a
consequence to that as millions of
people move to cities space is becoming
scarce and of course expensive and how
does that affect you how does that
affect that many people the young
entrepreneur
the single mother the empty nester the
working-class family how does that
affect you you have to make a choice you
either move as far as you need to from
the city center in order to afford a
place think about suburban sprawl or if
you wanna stay in the city you need to
downsize in a square footage as the
price of a square foot in places like
Boston San Francisco or New York it’s
already well beyond a thousand dollars
the problem with those two things those
two options is that they both come with
compromises compromises in your quality
of life in the first one apart from the
fact that it is not the most sustainable
way of growing as a city or as a country
you are giving up a Prius amount of time
through commuting every day and on the
second of course you are much more
conscious about your footprint but you
are giving up agree
amount of functionality no one really
wants to live in a tiny prison cell what
if there was a different way what if I
told you that our conception of a space
is wrong it has actually been wrong for
a long long time bigger larger space
does not mean more functionality that is
based in a very old paradigm where we
linearly relate a square footage and
functionality the square footage has
become that magical number that people
used to tell you how much functionality
you have the more square footage the
more functionality and that is so so
wrong all a square feet is not born
equal and I’m gonna prove that to you we
are going to use an example we are going
to use as an example a residential
studio apartment we could have chosen
another urban space because have chosen
an office a hotel room a dorm but let’s
use a residential history apartment now
I’m not talking about the studio
apartment from Sex and the City let me
bring you back to reality the typical
story apartment in New York right now
looks more like that and if you are
living in one of these apartments you
are probably having one of these three
problems or maybe all of them number one
lack of the vision of the space that is
the main reason why couples don’t want
to move to strips because it’s very
difficult to have two counteracting
simultaneous activities like sleeping or
watching TV we even found out throughout
our research interesting things like
what happens when the couple gets angry
probably you guessed right one of them
has no alternative but to go to the
bathroom number two lack of a proper
living area or dining area this is a
typical situation in which your studio
feels like a hotel room it feels like
and if you’re gonna have you know a
social gathering or a business meeting
not only is dysfunctional but it becomes
pretty pretty awkward a number three
lack of storage believe it or not we
still have a lot of physical things and
one of the last studies about apartment
rents told us that the second most
wanted feature in apartments nowadays
right after high-speed Internet is
walking closets now good luck trying to
fit are walking closer in a space like
that one by the way these three problems
are not fixed I just invented but
actually the Urban Land Institute
published a report that highlighted this
very same three issues but some of you
may be thinking I don’t go to plus
engineers you know designers architects
have been thinking about these problems
for a long time I’m not trying to come
up with solutions indeed the problem is
that all these solutions come with
compromises to the first problem of
division of space enter the junior
bedroom a partition wall on a studio it
solves a problem by creating another
problem because half of a time when you
are not sleeping your living room just
becomes half the size for number two
lack of a proper living area welcome
back Murphy beds from our grandpa’s home
now this is a good example of something
that is great for occasional use for
guests but it’s pretty horrible for
daily use because it forces you to go
through a ritual through the cognitive
load or threat of transformation adding
the steps to your daily life and as yet
Bezos from Amazon said what people have
found over and over again is that when
you remove the tiniest friction from
daily activities to make people’s lives
a number three to the lack of a storage
either you build a walk-in closet we
talked about which takes half of your
space for only 20 minutes of use or what
developers are building our storage
rooms like this one where you can pay 50
a hundred a hundred fifty dollars a
month for a smallish storage box like
this so the point here is that all
solutions
techniques don’t really solve new
problems but what if we could think
about a world where spaces furniture
walls had superpowers we could go back
to the same challenges and think about
what could happen or what if your
bedroom or your living room could shrink
or expand depending on activities what
if you could summon your bedroom or your
office or your walking closet what if
all of this could happen with just a
finger touch or a gesture or boys mobile
phone control what if all of this could
have been even autonomously when a space
understands the activities that are
happening what if there could be apps
that make your space your furniture your
walls talk to other smart devices like
lights or thermostats think about a new
space paradigm where spaces adapt to us
and our activities in the most
effortless and magical way instead of us
adapting to a spaces for those is
skeptical other let me tell you that we
are designing these systems like
household products reliable design to
endure thousands of cycles even designed
to go into manual mode if the power goes
down State Engineer to a stop in any
dangerous or hazardous situation and of
course cost-effective decoupling the
robotics from the furniture so we can
cost optimize the robotics and allow all
kinds of furniture solutions on top from
the very cheap to the very expensive but
what is even better is the fact that
this is not a dream this is not a
prototype this is actually a product
that a company called Ori that my team
and I founded from MIT is launching in
the coming months
and as the origin of its name origami we
are talking about approachable design
that takes different forms and different
functionalities with elegance and beauty
but what is even better than that
is that I just show you one example I
will show you one product and one
product is not going to solve all the
problems of all the spaces and all
people we need to go a level deeper we
need to think about tools we need to
think about a kit of parts of robotics
mechanics electronics software that
allows to create many more solutions
hundreds thousands of solutions for
different space problems my team and I
got very inspired by what MIT and Lego
created a few decades ago they created a
toolkit brains muscles skeletons that
were modular and that could allow kids
to create amazing engineering marvels so
many different possibilities with the
same backbone technologies now think
about Legos for grown-ups
think about you the designer the
architect the furniture maker having
access to tools robotic tools that allow
you to create all kinds of solutions
bets that slide the drop from the
ceiling tables the move around even
couches that is like magic carpets
solutions that even my team and I
haven’t even thought of
think about modular standardized
components thousands of product
possibilities and with those tools in
your hands now you can go back to
problems to urban problems it’s not only
the studio apartment in New York City it
can be the family of four people trying
to make four hundred square feet work in
Hong Kong or it could be the startup
company in New York City
that kind of really figured out how to
fit them into the space of type or the
business traveler that goes around the
world
I’m good love to have that room double
as an office space throughout the day a
new generation of his faces powered by
origin so in a nutshell think about
urban space being too valuable and
unresponsive think about all the
solutions not really solving new
problems think about what could happen
if furniture walls spaces had
superpowers think about modular
architectural robotics or maybe
something I’ve been non-friendly think
Ori
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