Notes
1. From Bruce Bernstein,
The
Language of Native American
Baskets: From the Weavers'
View,
National Museum of the
American Indian (Washington
DC), 2003, p 27.
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Material choices, substructure,
weaving and bundling pattern,
for example, were left open
and led to discoveries that were
in turn absorbed into the core
design instructions.
Architectural-scale wire-nest
structure made from fibreglass rod.
We are also speculating on how we might further augment these rich and productive human
networks with machine intelligence and robotic construction. Behaviour-based robotics, which uses
sensors and machine vision to privilege adaptive behaviour over preprogrammed actions, seems to
suggest
a
congruent extension of the design practices described here. As part of
a
human-in-loop
computing paradigm, behavioural robotics proposes
a
kind of augmented construction process
that echoes the traditional one in that knowledge is not entombed in unbending rules or static
design
specifications,
but continually drawn out during construction and re-input to reinvigorate
the overall process. As new generations of makers extend age-old material practices, it is important
to recognise that contemporary technologies ...
