Incertitude, contingence et intuition matérielle: un cadre de recherche pour un “design mineur”

The chapter focuses on how a new approach to mediated materiality can inform ways of designing. If the challenge for design is to emulate nature’s ability in the design of the artificial, then the way of implementing this is by paying close attention to material morphogenesis. More than specifically about biomimicry then, this essay looks at how to conceptualize material morphogenesis so to re-imagine design processes in relation to digital materiality. I am interested in particular in those aspects of digital mediation that concern uncertainty, contingency and indetermination, and how uncertainty, contingency and indetermination feed into processes of digital making where a recombination of data and matter take place that is not fully programmed.