EMERGENT MOLARITIES: Resistances on the Molecular Plane of Biology and Digital Architecture

摘要

What we have today in contemporary digital design is a complex conjunction between the biological and the technological. By drawing on phylogenetic evolution, topological equivalences, and emergent properties in form generation and spatial thinking, design technology believes itself to belong to a continuum with the biological by demonstrating a "vitalism", or expressing a "life-imperative", so to speak.37 Concepts such as "atmosphere", "virus", "cells" and "evolution" appear with some frequency as descriptions and justification of processes, and are as such deemed natural-biological almost without qualification.