london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

nicholette CHAN, gilles RETSIN, aaron SILVER, & sophia TANG: Body topologic explores processes of self-organization which result in complex topological forms. Working with non-linear dynamics and local rules, node-networked bodies generated a variety of surface and volume organizations. These organizations explore algorithmic notions of material intelligence, ultimately producing topological entities that have coherent order when nearing a dynamically stable state.

sP: What or who influenced this project?
nC, gR, aS, & sT: Ernst Haeckel.

sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
nC, gR, aS, & sT: Ducksauce, Die Antwoord.

sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
nC, gR, aS, & sT: Robert Stuart-Smith, Jose Sanchez.

Additional credits and links:
All work done with the support of Robert Stuart-Smith and Knut Brunier.

This work is done within Robert Stuart-Smith’s Body Topologic workshop at the Architectural Association School of Architecture’s Design Research Lab