Neon Organic 0052 (sketch) from watz on Vimeo.
Here is an interview wih Marius Watz from Generator.x and Code&Form about Generative Art.
It is interesting for us because it is closely related to complexity, software and design as the generative system could follow genetic and evolutionary rules or using open source software or code (but consider [...]

Tags: Art, Generative system

I’m very happy to share with you this documentary about Complex Networks and Network Theory. It is the firt one about complexity and networks that I have found so far, it is very well structured and narrated, and it’s nice to see
Steven Strogatz, Duncan J. Watts, Alessandro Vespignani, Albert-László Barabási after reading their papers and [...]

Tags: Scale-free Networks, Science, Social Network, Social Network Analysis

After FluidForms (read this old post), here is another innovative Swiss company based on mass-customization and user co-created content, mShape.
And they use too multi-layered wood and computer controlled milling machines, but here complexity comes from the behaviour of the users, from their co-creation that generates “a population of tables”.
It’s not an open p2p marketplace, it’s [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Hand-craft, Mass-customization, Meta-design, Milling, Mobile, Parametric, Product Design, Switzerland, Technology

After the first post and second post about Open Architectural Design at MIT, here you can find a thesis about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) developed by Kalaya Kovidvisith at MIT and submitted on June 2007: “Open Source Building Alliance Ecology. The Internet Framework for Consumer Driven Participative Design”.
The primary purpose of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Community, Mass-customization, Technology