Between Digital & Analog Civilizations: The Spatial Manipulation Media Workshop (1997)
article⁄Between Digital & Analog Civilizations: The Spatial Manipulation Media Workshop (1997)
abstract⁄As the power shift from material culture to media culture accelerates, architecture finds itselfin the midst of a clash between centuriesold analog design methods such as tracing paper,vellum, graphite, ink, chipboard, clay, balsa wood, plastic, metal, etc. and the new digitalsystems of production such as scanning, video capture, image manipulation, visualization,solid modeling, computer aided drafting, animation, rendering, etc.. Moving forward requiresa realization that a material interpretation of architecture proves limiting at a time wheninformation and media environments are the major drivers of culture. It means to proactivelyincorporate the emerging digital world into our traditional analog work. It means to change. This paper presents the results of an intense design workshop that looks, probes, and buildsat the very interface that is provoking the cultural and professional shifts. Media space ispresented and used as an interpretive playground for design experimentation in which thepoetics of representation and not its technicalities are the driving force to generatearchitectural ideas. The work discussed was originally developed as a starting exercise for adigital design course. The exercise was later conducted as a workshop at two schools ofarchitecture by different faculty working in collaboration with it’s inventor. The workshop is an effective sketch problem that gives students an immediate start into anontraditional, handson, and integrated use of contemporary media in the design process.In doing so, it establishes a procedural foundation for a design studio dealing with digitalmedia.
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| Year |
1997 |
| Authors |
Neiman, Bennett; Bermudez, Julio. |
| Issue |
Design and Representation |
| Pages |
131-137 |
| Library link |
J. Peter Jordan, Bettina Mehnert & Anton Harfmann, 1997. bib⁄Design and Representation. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
between-digital-analog-civilizations |
