Propagation|Feedback|Reverberation

The paper investigates the implications of intelligence as embodied and embedded into the architectural system itself as distributed processes of structured information exchange and its inextricable environmental interrelations, filling the gap (that representation has started and fueled through goal-based abstraction) between design and making through the programming of constructive agents behaviors (whether biological or robotic) in dynamic simulations. Intelligence tendency is to be ubiquitous and embodied into organisms and their environments alike; in such condition ecology expresses itself in its very core definition of abundance and distribution of resources through information exchanges at all possible scales of complexity. Such embodiment and embeddedness were investigated exploiting swarm intelligence (through the propagation of agent-based and cellular automata systems) coupled with multi-scale form-finding processes as a mean to unleash open-ended creativity and a potential range of affects. Such systems will co-operate (collaborating or competing) within intensive environmental force-fields and proactively engage the body-mind-environment relations, from the logics of material organization to the reverberations at several system scales. The paper will present as case studies some projects from the a3 course for 100YC (now exhibited in the Slovenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale) plus another full project developed by Co-de-iT in collaboration with D-Shape®.