Since the digital age, how we design has become
as important as what we design. Never before there have been so many different techniques at our disposal, many of them with
the ability to cross previously imagined frontiers. During the 20th century efforts to rethink habitual practice of the design
process are accompanying the process itself. Our research focuses on the dissection, documentation, and reinterpretation of
contemporary digital production practice by means of serial experiments and platforms of new media. An interactive atlas of
correlated aesthetics, entities and formulations shall contribute to the growing community of open source design practitioners
and makers in the digital chain.
The role of the model as an immediate source of physical and emotional feedback
shifts from the analogue to the digital realm. Today, designing characterizes itself rather by manipulating digital systems
than determined articulation. Parametric modeling and open systems allow a simple formulation of intricate generative processes,
though a model’s ability to adapt to changes is limited by its own complexity. There is a desire to be designing with systems
of simple rules, which are able to temporarily stabilize but stay open to changes of any kind, to be capable of reflecting
any unforeseen state. Modern parametric modeling bears great potential in the research of novel interfaces, representations,
their flexibility, and the theoretically unlimited pool of formal languages waiting to be described. We want to fundamentally
question the ways in which parametric design platforms are used, to produce original modes of operation. Artifacts of contemporary
design and architecture serve as samples for an elementary decomposition and strategic reconstruction, where smart representation
will foster flexibility and persistence of a model until its physical manifestation. The galore experiment of ‘gestalt to
digital to analogue’ here serves as means for synthesized innovation to establish a knowledge base of components, forms, formulations
and dependencies. Open source and plug-in tools are about to establish a new collaborative design society, where the seed
of new methods and profound reflection of the existing is greatly needed. Beyond local prototypes, an open-ended result of
this project is envisaged in the atlas as an online platform; gathering, relating, rendering an artifact of parametric design’s
dissected information, logics of aesthetics, subsystems and fragments for the public.