Versioning, Time and Design Culture

摘要

Clearly this concept is articulated by SHoP in a manner to position it beyond the territory that other digital design practices have adopted in the past decade. This territory is one that legitimises a processual approach to design by asserting that a crucial element of 'time' is captured by an analytical process. To place the concept of 'versioning' within a larger cultural framework, and evaluate it as a strategy, we have to map how and why this engagement with time and effect is taking place. Recent work addressing 'time-based' analyses insists on the use of temporal criteria in generating diagrams which then can be used through reverse engineering to suggest design solutions. Time is crucial in this investigation, as the philosophical background from which many of these practices emerge insists that only through a nuanced engagement - over time - with variation can any intelligence in design be produced.