On Folding: Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research

by Michael Friedman (Editor), Wolfgang Schäffner (Editor)

Overview

It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a new conception in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be conceived in a broader way. Folding as a material and structural process offers a new methodology to think about the close relationship of matter, form and code. It henceforth crosses out old dichotomies, such as the organic and the inorganic or nature and technology, and blurs the boundaries between experimental, conceptual and historical approaches.
This anthology aims to unfold this new interdisciplinary field and its disciplinary impact, ranging from materials science, biology, architecture, and mathematics to literature and philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837634044
Publication date:	08/16/2016
Series:	Science Studies
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael Friedman (PhD) works in the interdisciplinary laboratory "Image Knowledge Gestaltung" at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.
Wolfgang Schäffner (Prof. Dr. phil.), born 1961, is Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at the Humboldt University of Berlin and speaker of the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Table of Contents

On Folding: Introduction of a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research Michael Friedman Wolfgang Schäffner 7

Folding the Narrative: The Dimensionality of Writing in French Structuralism (1966-1972) Kann Krauthausen 31

Simply Complicated: Thinking in Folds Angelika Seppi 49

Infinite Folds: El Creco and Deleuze's Operative Function of the Fold Claudia Blümle 77

Versal Unfolding: How a Specific Folding Can Turn Crease and Tear into Transversal Notions Emmanuel Ferrand Dominique Peysson 93

3D Code: Folding in the Architecture of Peter Eisenman Sandra Schramke 115

Folding and Geometry: Buckminster Fuller's Provocation of Thinking Michael Friedman Joachim Krausse 139

An Introduction into the Physics of Self-folding Thin Structures Lorenzo Guiducci John W. C. Dunlop Peter Fratzl 175

Folding of Graphene and Other Two-dimensional Materials Mohammad Fardin Hholami Nikolai Severin Jürgen P. Rabe 211