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Generative Design Processes
tbc
This seminar will examine the role of agency within generative design processes. The course will engage algorithmic techniques in the development of a computational methodology grounded in behavioral and swarm intelligence. While discussing the political and social role of agency, the workshop will focus on an abstract design methodology, recasting simple decision making ability into agents capable of self-organizing into an emergent intelligence. Unlike the typical application of swarm systems in design, this workshop will not engage simply in the mapping of these complex systems, but instead, we will mine the self-organizing potential of the systems to negotiate between a complex set of desires and parameters in the generation of architecture. The semester will focus around two areas of research, initially developing simulations of vector based swarm systems and then using these as the basis for developing an architectural design methodology which op