Origami is one of those subjects that hits the aesthetic button as well as the technical button .. it forms the roots of a means of manifesting "programmable matter" which is long overdue for a bit of crazy technological innovation.

Every now and then I go through a phase of "catching up with the state of the origami art" and it is always rewarding to see the progress made by academics and scientists alike .. I find Computational Origami utterly fascinating, personally:

https://langorigami.com/article/computational-origami/