- Sagrada Familia Rosassa, Global Computer- BURRAY
“That haptic engagement has its own rewards within a process ultimately as hand-driven as the craft of cutting stone”
Burray heavily emphasizes the process of reiteration throughout the passage and how it was encompassed throughout the making of the church. With the introduction of rapid prototyping, associative design (parametric design), collaboration, he seems to really tries to push how successful (yet difficult) this new methodology of associative geometry design can be a new alternative for topology. But at the end of the passage, he says the statement above on how essentially designing by hand and designing by Associative geometry can be the same. I pose the question if this is actually true or does one method more then the other. A parametric design might be the new wave of designing but there is always going to be this nostalgia to doing things by hand (craft). WIll one be phased out or can both work together?
2. Meet the SPIME- STERLING
pertaining to “ARPHIDS”, When sterling uses the example of “Lost Dogs” and how to prevent these incidents from re-occurring is by inserting chips into the dogs themselves so when astray, they can be found. Chip technology of magnitude is not new but will these technologies / smart materials be inserted into humans as well? will it eventually be a new way of living with embedded technologies in us? Will “Machine-Readable identity” be accepted by our future generations as a social norm? Can RIFD injections be seen as humane? Do these methodologies project humanity as a whole or does it cripple us?
3. Meet the SPIME- STERLING
Sterling uses the example of a bottle of wine and not simply just mentions it as an object but also mentions the sequence and step by step process of how and why it is made. Stemming from the time the seeds were on the ground to when it is packed up, labeled and shipped off to be sold. The bottle of wine was mentioned as a “Congregation of material and material flow” was this to deconstruct the bottle of wine to what it simply was? an “artifact and or Product”. SPIME was mentioned as not an object but an installation” can this be related to the example of the wine bottle?
