1. computational corporeality
computers, materials, and the body
To enrich and expand our relationship with interfaces, they must perform, respond and react in ways that mimic the body and our surrounding environment in their materiality as much as their intelligence.
amanda parkes
tangible media group
mit media lab

2. organic forms and materials provide designers with a humanist vocabulary that affirm society’s place within the natural world.
ellen lupton
skin: surface, substance, and design
Blur Building
Diller + Scofidio
WTC Path Terminal
Santiago Calatrava
the constructed and the organic are converging
The Carbon Tower Prototype Peter Testa

3. materials & identity

4. material behavior

5. discrete vs. continuous
modularity & primitives
rigid
amorphous

6. form follows function follows interaction

7. form follows function follows interaction?
How did multifunctionality come to mean neutrality?

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amanda parkes
tangible media group
mit media lab

9. physicality in the feedback loop