The Culture of Reuse

As we strive to create things of lasting value and usefulness, designers must become masters in the art of transformation. The studio challenged students to investigate the concept of Autonomy and the Culture of Reuse. Students explored to move beyond a simple reapplication, and to transform the selection into an entirely new object. The design process is shifted from a static functional exercise to a pathway of discovering new possibilities; from tectonic contingencies to the autonomy possible in figurative form making. With computational logic, we traverse a pathway of discovery to arrive at a different place, and an associative process is born. The concept of the studio focused on fostering computational design thinking and integrating algorithmic design into the creative process.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2