“ We understand materials not by reading about them, or assuming what they can do, but by exploring them, playing with them, sketching with them. Ideally, that sketching happens in the final material, but perhaps, like a sculptor sketching on paper, it happens in abstractions such as paper-prototyping. What matters is that you find a way. Sketching is not just about building towards a final work; it’s about building familiarity with a medium itself, working it into one’s practice.
This is one of the best short pieces about art, design, technology, and material that I’ve read. It aligns perfectly with my own thoughts on the subject, and expresses them in a way I haven’t been able to.
I found this originally through Russell Davies at http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2011/08/technology-as-a-material.html
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