Computing embodied effort in the constructible design space of bobbin lace

In recent years, research in design and computation has included processes of making as an expansion of the more established study of shapes with grammar formalism. This interest parallels a rise in craft practices as, perhaps, a counterpoint to the proliferation of digital fabrication in which fidelity to original specifications is considered crucial to the success of a project but whose means and methods are often obfuscated or of secondary importance. Making grammars (Knight and Stiny 2015), by contrast, offer an opportunity to examine one of the most important yet least understood considerations of a design: the effort it takes to physically produce it. This thesis introduces embodied effort as a contribution from human beings or machines that includes the work, steps, routines, applied skill, cognitive processing, or other forms of output that directly contributes to the production of a design.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Elberfeld, Nathaniel Joseph.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Terry Knight and Caitlin Mueller.

• Architecture.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127864

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127864