Shifting forms Shifting forms Generative streams Generative streams between design and between design and systems systems Dr. Sayfan G. Borghini, Master Course in Integrated Design, H.I.T.
Jan 17, 2016
Shifting formsShifting formsGenerative streams between Generative streams between
design and systemsdesign and systems
Dr. Sayfan G. Borghini, Master Course in Integrated Design, H.I.T.
New aesthetic patchworkNew aesthetic patchwork
Shock and awe; Marius Waltz
sonja bäumel
Form as shape – geometry & visual order
forestforest
2 Dim ?2 Dim ? 3 Dim?3 Dim?
1 Dim ?1 Dim ? 2 Dim?2 Dim?
Self-similarity
Self-similarity builds up iterativelySelf-similarity builds up iteratively, , repeating a simple process over and over, repeating a simple process over and over, to generate the final complexityto generate the final complexity
We are We are packing endless structurepacking endless structure in a in afinite amount of space.finite amount of space.
A geometry of organized A geometry of organized complexitycomplexity
We respond to self-similarity aestheticallyWe respond to self-similarity aesthetically It allows us to correlate form to function as It allows us to correlate form to function as
structurestructure It shows a deeper kind of orderIt shows a deeper kind of order
Fractals Fractals support support
a a theory of roughnesstheory of roughness
They allow interpenetration of lines and They allow interpenetration of lines and
surfaces, surfaces and volumes.surfaces, surfaces and volumes.
For example the roughness of a coast line
Form as Process Generating through Growth and Function
““the form of an object is a diagram of forces, … from the form of an object is a diagram of forces, … from it we can judge or deduce the forces that are acting it we can judge or deduce the forces that are acting or have acted upon it.”or have acted upon it.”
D’Arcy Thomson D’Arcy Thomson (On Growth and Form)(On Growth and Form)
Process is the layer underlining most of the form that surrounds us.
Realizing the “processuality” of the word around us brings about a shift in the Aesthetic quest
towards the development of the ability to recognize and influencethe process and not the object.
““My work explores not the design of an object, but the My work explores not the design of an object, but the design of a process in order to generate objects”design of a process in order to generate objects” Michael Hansmayer
Subdivision Columns – Michael Hansmayer
Same tree grows into a very different object according to its environment
Dependence on initial conditions - Contextand Adaptation
Sonic trees; Artemis Papageorgiou
Form as Emergence – generating through Form as Emergence – generating through InteractionInteraction
Michal Piasecki
Design focus has greatly expanded from a focus on Design focus has greatly expanded from a focus on the physical production of new objects, to the the physical production of new objects, to the interactioninteraction of people with the object of people with the object
And eventually to the And eventually to the interaction between peopleinteraction between people happening in virtue of the physical and virtual happening in virtue of the physical and virtual objectsobjects
Morphogenesis – generating through ‘soft’ matterMorphogenesis – generating through ‘soft’ matter
JDDoria
Neri Oxman – Imaginary Beings
Patterns – generating through Information
Collective Intelligence & Collaboration
“It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.”
Gregory Bateson