Academic Research at the Design Research Lab, AA, London
Guided by Mostafa El Sayed and Octavian Gheorghiu
Team: Bhavatarini Kumaravel, Lara Vartziotis, Irfan Bhakrani, Xiujing Wang
The workshop explores the generative potential of self-regulating neighborhoods of voxels that interact through simple local rule sets and result in complex organizations across large populations. Experimenting through explicit models of interactions and observable patterns of agency the workshop explores the capacity for these systems to evolve structural elements with the capacity to self-structure. The research seeks to evaluate a voxel neighborhood system through stability. The inherent stability of the system is analyzed and strategies to enhance it are evolved. The local rules and the initializing seed of the cellular automata voxel neighborhood are rated in terms of their stability quotients across iterations and the best rules and seeds deduced out of them are employed in an attempt to building systems of increased heights, employing the stabilizing strategies discovered.
