We are quick to name the world and slow to look at it. Grown, Not Made is a designer's argument for slowing down, and for trusting what we notice before we can explain it.
Drawing on field research at NASA, work in computational design, and years of making objects by hand and by code, Sergio O. Vazquez-Franco follows five shifts in perception: from identifying to observing, from things to patterns, from feelings as side effects to feelings as information, from the mind alone to the body's faster reading, and from fearing technology to using it as a lens.
This is not a book about copying how nature looks. It is about following the rules nature follows while it is still becoming, and about what that can teach us about how we design, and how we live.