THE VOID

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2019-11
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THE VOID is an approach to thinking and creating new experiential possibilities in lived spaces. This thesis knits a series of separate threads from an array of disciplines to generate new geometrical forms of soft, dynamic and flexible borders - where bodily engagement with the environment is capable of questioning and deforming borders. These acts of design, both in digital and physical realm, are framed as a constant dialogue between form and behavior (information), where each impact the other in a reflexive manner. THE VOID manifests as a series of original art works that exploit the link between behavior and form while animating a variety of boundaries. The text is an attempt to translate these works into writing – something that is perhaps impossible, but was nonetheless attempted. Chapter 1 of THE VOID describes some of the motivations and initial thinking behind the thesis. Chapter 2 builds out the philosophical lineage of THE VOID and connects it to a series of architectural and art-based precedents. Chapter 3 takes a close look at slime mold as an example of THE VOID in nature and as code. Chapter 4 describes the catalog of original art works produced during the development of the thesis and serves as the closest and best approximation of THE VOID. Chapter 5 inverts the problem of THE VOID back onto the problem of human subjectivity concluding with questions surrounding being and existence.
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Computational design, adaptive space, Reflexivity
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Fallah, R. (2019). THE VOID (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.