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