subtle_technologies

(i still need to transcribe the notes taken during the conference, and will expand where relevant –Nik Gaffney)

strucutre & flexibility
- architectural → biological
- how to deal with flexible, fluid structures
- biologically static → dead
parameterisabilty generalisabilty * biological influences on design (arch/product/procedural) * biomimetics as possible meeting point for bioogists, desingers, engineers. * buckminster fuller * tensegrity a framework for org. of multiple independent units * tensegrity everywhere synergetics everywhere
objects vs. dynamics
determinism
- in arch. and genetics/morphology
complexity
- function of simple behaviour over complex landscape
- unpredictable iteraction/development of simple parts
contingency, deferral and traps
changes in perception & understanding due to instrumentation
- cf. parametric design, and headphones
attempts ot making explicit, the implicit assumptions in various fields (?)
translation & reinterpretation