PUBLICATION Publisher: Blurb (February 18, 2016) The book ‘Grammar, Code and Computation’, compiles a series of investigations into rule-based generation of form initiated at Taylor’s University, Selangor. Objective was to start from regulated folding techniques in order to arrive at an understanding of topological. modular, digital and applicational differences. The work was initiated by the increasing amount of taxonomic differentiation …
LCW on Biodiversity 0.2 at 59th ISSS
Biodiversity 0.2 – a smart invertebrate or computing the wild life city in the Anthropocene “Biodiversity 0.2 – a smart invertebrate or computing the wild life city in the Anthropocene” suggests design principles for creating a future habitat for all species, including organic, human, animal and computational devices. The latter describing a rather novel and advancing typology. The concept of …
LCW co-chairs track at 59th ISSS Berlin
This track intends to help advance a sound epistemology and methodology for systems design. In cooperation with the SIG Research Towards a General Theory of Systems and other tracks insights we investigate the interdependencies of natural – social – technological systems to develop appropriate design competencies for future oriented thrivable ecologies. We work at the interface of science – humanities …
Design gestalten <> a talk about very small things
Talk as part of the Digital Bauhaus Summit, Weimar 2015 In 1995 Nicholas Negroponte stated that the “The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable”. 30 years later we may re-view Negroponte’s statement and claim that the merging from atoms and bits will perpetuate further with the advent of smart skin and wearable computers. The body as physical …
Geometry and form II
Space is defined as complex system made up of individual characteristic points, nodes of an event, named architectural form. We define space as open and closed fields of pattern and language. In 300BC mathematics were discovered by Aristotle, geometry by Euclid. Since then geometry has been subjected to space, form, perception and social patterns. When Descartes discovered the coordinate system …