| Paper title: | Simulacrum, Not Simulation: A Theoretical Approach to Simulation in Education |
| Authors: | Webb, Alexander |
| Summary: | As the practice of architecture grows increasingly more infatuated with verisimilitude, the technical skills required to enable a morphogenetic design process become increasingly specific and extensive. While this model is not as problematic within the realm of practice, in a pedagogical environment the time and expertise requisite for conducting and evaluating comprehensive simulation is an impediment to developing fundamental design skills and mastery of a morphogenetic process. This paper promotes an approach of simulacra; a procedural acknowledgement of an imperfect simulation that serves to advance design aptitude and critical thinking, rather than the pretention of perfection or accuracy. |
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| Year of publication: | 2013 |
| Keywords: | Simulation; Morphogenetic design; Computational design; Simulacrum; Performance |
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/sigradi2013_343.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Webb, Alexander (2013). Simulacrum, Not Simulation: A Theoretical Approach to Simulation in Education . SIGraDi 2013 [Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Chile - Valparaíso 20 - 22 November 2013, pp. 369 - 372, http://itc.scix.net/paper/sigradi2013_343 |