Title:
The machines of perception

dc.contributor.advisor Spuybroek, Lars
dc.contributor.author Magner, Jeremy en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Bafna, Sonit
dc.contributor.committeeMember Romm, Stuart
dc.contributor.department Architecture en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-09-17T19:26:22Z
dc.date.available 2008-09-17T19:26:22Z
dc.date.issued 2008-06-03 en_US
dc.description.abstract The following work is an attempt to feed a dynamic concept of the body into contemporary morphogenetic design procedures in order to confront critiques that topological design processes produce architectural form that is too abstract. This begins with an understanding of the body schema; the open and continuously variable relationships between the various modes of sensation and perception that can only be described in topological terms. Similar to how active matter is instrumentalized in avant-garde practice and cutting edge research towards self-organization and morphogenesis, an active body schema has the potential to be instrumentalized towards design that aims to exploit the potential performance and openness of the body when confronted with architecture, moving away from mechanistic, representational notions of function. The work follows a procedure wherein conceptual research engages physical phenomena that are abstracted into diagrams then organized into material systems or abstract machines. These machines are intended to be mobilized and consolidated to engage specific issues of program and type and further refined to be deployed upon a specific site. This morphological process of machining architecture aims to move toward a seamless exchange between research and design that effectively instrumentalizes the dynamic body schema into a design process engaging architecture of performance. Perhaps, in terms of the body, morphogenetic design produces architecture that is not abstract enough. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24630
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Proprioception en_US
dc.subject Synesthesia en_US
dc.subject Movement en_US
dc.subject Material systems en_US
dc.subject Topological design en_US
dc.subject Haptic space en_US
dc.subject Motility en_US
dc.subject The body en_US
dc.subject The virtual en_US
dc.subject Machining architecture en_US
dc.subject Perception en_US
dc.subject Sensation en_US
dc.subject Affect en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Topology
dc.subject.lcsh Senses and sensation in architecture
dc.title The machines of perception en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Spuybroek, Lars
local.contributor.corporatename College of Design
local.contributor.corporatename School of Architecture
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