On Folding: Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research

Published by transcript Verlag 2016

On Folding

Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research

Edited by: Michael Friedman and Wolfgang Schäffner

In the series Science Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839434048

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About this book

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.

Author information

Michael Friedman (PhD) works in the interdisciplinary laboratory »Image Knowledge Gestaltung« at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.
Wolfgang Schäffner (Prof. Dr.), Professor for the History of Knowledge and Culture at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is the director of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik and the director of the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory«.

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CHOICE, 54/7 (2017)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
On Folding: Introduction of a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research Michael Friedman and Wolfgang Schäffner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Folding the Narrative: The Dimensionality of Writing in French Structuralism (1966 –1972) Karin Krauthausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Simply Complicated: Thinking in Folds Angelika Seppi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Infinite Folds: El Greco and Deleuze’s Operative Function of the Fold Claudia Blümle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Versal Unfolding: How a Specific Folding Can Turn Crease and Tear into Transversal Notions Emmanuel Ferrand and Dominique Peysson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
3D Code: Folding in the Architecture of Peter Eisenman Sandra Schramke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Folding and Geometry: Buckminster Fuller’s Provocation of Thinking Michael Friedman and Joachim Krausse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
An Introduction into the Physics of Self-folding Thin Structures Lorenzo Guiducci, John W. C. Dunlop and Peter Fratzl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Folding of Graphene and Other Two-dimensional Materials Mohammad Fardin Gholami, Nikolai Severin and Jürgen P. Rabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 242
Keywords: Material; Structure; Form; Code; Interdisciplinary Research; Science; Technology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: May 27, 2016
ISBN: 9783839434048