Abstract
| This paper, aims to describe the workshop entitled Nature | Form | Process, where participants where challenged to interact and study Nature through “new” Processes with the intent to generate original outcomes. With the assumption that the workshop itself was a living-system, an open self-organizing life forms that interact with their environment. A system that is maintained by flows of information, energy and matter; shaped the work plan. Meaning that, the workshop should be seen and approached as something that is in a flux and, all stakeholders (human, non-human and institutional) should be considered as sentient actuators with their own agenda; and, at the same time as constituting elements of a bigger system that should have common priorities. Additionally, outcomes should be framed as manifestations of processes and not be defined under a specific formal outcome; form should be seen as a consequence not a goal. This focused the main objective of this workshop to be: the exploration of formal outcomes through the manipulation of non-human agents’ phenotypic traits, and that these artifacts would work as proof-of-concept for future spin-offs envisioned at new interspecies collaborations. In summary, the participants were not asked to explore these systems in order to obtain a final product, instead they should produce tangible outcomes that illustrate the potential for future-works and these tests should work as proof-of-concept of that potential. This workshop was also seen as a tool to test the assumptions made for the restructuring of the elective course Biomaterials: Designing with Living Systems. |
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Workshop, Biomaterials, Design, Living Systems, Blended Learning
