Spring 2014 Lecture Series
The emergence of complexity theory has shifted the conceptualization of form from the macro scale to a concern for the operation of the complex systems that underlie formation. This inherently organizational understanding of form has been the basis for this design research and the development a behavioral design methodology. This behavioral approach draws from the logic of swarm intelligence and operates through the self-organization of multi-agent systems. Designing through non-linear behavioral systems challenges the hierarchies that are embedded within architecture, and has radical implications for the generation of architectural form, organization, structure, tectonics, aesthetics and materiality.
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