Lap, Twist, Knot. Intentionality in digital-analogue making environments (2018)
article⁄Lap, Twist, Knot. Intentionality in digital-analogue making environments (2018)
abstract⁄This paper discusses a theoretical approach and method of making in computational design and construction. The project examines digital and analogue building practices through a social anthropological and STS lens to better understand the use of technology in complex making environments. We position this with respect to contemporary investigations of materials in architecture which use physical and virtual prototyping and collaborative building. Our investigation extends this work by parsing complex making through ethnographic analysis. In doing so we seek to recalibrate computational design methods which privilege rote execution of digital form. This inquiry challenges ideas of agency and intention as ’enabled’ by new technologies or materials. Rather, we investigate the troubling as well as extension of explicit designer intentions by the tacit intentions of technologies. Our approach is a transdisciplinary investigation synthesizing architectural making and ethnographic analysis. We draw on humanistic and social science theories which examine activities of humantechnology exchange and architectural practices of algorithmic design and fabrication. We investigate experimental design processes through prototyping architectural components and assemblies. These activities are examined by collecting data on humantechnology interactions through field notes, journals, sketches, and video recordings. Our goal is to foster and acknowledge more complex, socially constructed methods of design and fabrication. This work in progress, using a cement composite fabric, is a preliminary study for a larger project looking at complex making in coordination with public engagement.
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| Year |
2018 |
| Authors |
Forren, James; Nicholas, Claire. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. |
| Pages |
336-341 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
lap-twist-knot-intentionality-digital-analogue |
