Iremnur Tokac, Herman Bruyninckx, Andrew Vande Moere
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Abstract
Material agency describes how material affordances and constraints have the inherent capacity to suggest formal transformations. Digital fabrication typically excludes material agency because it requires the final form is digitally modelled before it can be fabricated. To enrich the fabrication design space with material agency, we introduce 1) a programming grammar that relates the sensing of material states with the transformation of fabrication actions via explicit rule notations; 2) a grammatical compiler that translates these rule notations into a responsive robot executable program; 3) a set of critical reflections on how this grammar enhances the fabrication design space with material agency. Consequently, our contributions broaden digital fabrication to produce intricate material forms that cannot be simulated by geometrical definitions.
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Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.
Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.