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Understanding the hermeneutics of digital materiality in contemporary architectural modelling: a material engagement perspective
- Abstract:
- This article develops a framework for analysing how digital software and models become mediums for creative imagination in architectural design. To understand the hermeneutics of these relationships, we develop key concepts from Material Engagement Theory (MET) and Postphenomenology (PP). To push these frameworks into the realm of digital design, we develop the concept of Digital Materiality. Digital Materiality describes the way successive layers of mathematics, code, and software come to mediate enactive perception, and the possibilities of creative material engagement actualised in work with software. Just as molecular materials come to transform action with material objects, so digital materiality comes to enable and transform creative practices with computers. Digital architectural design form a new space for ongoing enactive discovery and creativity through manipulation of digital models and their underlying software environments. By shifting relationships within their digital models, architects can direct their attention, intention, and imagination towards widely different aspects of the model. Here, creative imagination becomes a fundamentally situated activity where mind emerges through dynamic interaction between a variety of embodied, material, and cultural domains.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s00146-020-01044-5
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- Publisher:
- Springer
- Journal:
- AI and Society More from this journal
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 2217-2227
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-08-01
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1435-5655
- ISSN:
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0951-5666
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English
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1130749
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pubs:1130749
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2020-09-06
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- 2020
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