Visualizing making: Shapes, materials, and actions


Gursoy B., Ozkar M.

DESIGN STUDIES, cilt.41, ss.29-50, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 41
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.destud.2015.08.007
  • Dergi Adı: DESIGN STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.29-50
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The increasing interest in materiality currently challenges the long existing traditions that consider visual thinking as the primary actor in design creativity. Shape grammars offer a formalism to represent visual reasoning in design, which is never purely limited to the visual aspects of design processes. Aiming to develop ways to explicitly include material manipulation in a computational formalism, we report on an ongoing exploration of how shape computation extends beyond abstract visual shapes to incorporate material shapes that have a physical existence. We present a materially informed process with shape rules and show that we can apply these rules creatively to explore the physical character of the material. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.