Cluster Themes

In this cluster we are interested in exploring questions including the following:

» How do we perceive and relate to the computational in the physical world?

» What does it mean to simulate the real world in a computational environment?

» How can we best explore and subsequently evaluate new modes of design thinking arising from the work of inter-disciplinary teams from art, design, science and engineering?

» What is the difference between the mechanical and computational, between the physical and the virtual?

» What properties of a computational system change as we move from a closed, discrete world (i.e. the cellular automata (CA) model), to an open continuous one (the multi-agent system (MAS) model)?

» How can we harness emergent properties of distributed systems in design?

» And, finally, what models can we use to enable interdisciplinary teams to work together more productively?