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0.5 Flocks, Schools, Swarms, Crowds

“Over many iterations, patterns emerge… flock behavior tends toward roughly similar configurations.” Analyzing the dynamics and behaviors of flocks and crowds can help us to integrate fluidity in our designs.

0.3 Walking Out of Cubism

“The construction of meaning was displaced from the object itself to the spatial field between the viewer and the object.” Minimalism is about avoiding the unnecessary, it’s about simplicity, utility, and less is more.

0.4 Thick 2D: Moires, Mats

“If we think of the figure not as a demarcated object read against a stable field, but as an effect emerging from the field itself… then it might be possible to imagine figure and field as more closely allied.”

0.1 From Object to Field

“A field condition could be of any formal or spatial matrix capable of unifying diverse elements while respecting the identity of each.”

0.2 Geometric Vs. Algebraic Combination

“The conventions of classical architecture dictate not only the proportions of individual elements but also the relationship between individual elements.”