| id |
acadia10_364 |
| authors |
Cabrinha, Mark |
| year |
2010 |
| title |
Parametric Sensibility: Cultivating the Material Imagination in Digital Culture |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2010.364
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| source |
ACADIA 10: LIFE in:formation, On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture [Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-4507-3471-4] New York 21-24 October, 2010), pp. 364-371 |
| summary |
Digital fabrication and parametric tools require not only digital dexterity but a robust material sensibility that precedes digital mediation. Developed through Gaston Bachelard’s concept of the graft, the material imagination acts as a reciprocal creative intelligence to today’s dominant formal imagination enabled through the fluid geometric precision in digital tools. This paper presents a series of “materials first” pedagogical approaches through which material constraints become operative design criteria in the development of digital skills. This intersection between analog and digital systems develops a parametric sensibility that is demonstrated through physical prototypes and full-scale installations. This approach is implicitly a critique of the disregard of material logic in many parametric approaches in particular, and digital design culture in general. Conversely, the development of a parametric sensibility through analog means enables the development of material primitives from which parametric tools can expand the material imagination while giving structure to it. |
| keywords |
Parametric, Digital Fabrication, Analog, Digital |
| series |
ACADIA |
| type |
normal paper |
| email |
mcabrinh@calpoly.edu |
| full text |
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