Crumpling: An Exploration of Nature

This chapter brings together contributions addressing the almost invisible or unnoticed, the imaginary and the inconsequential. Entropy, disintegration, collapse, intense observation and mindaltering activities are states or processes which impact on the formative/making practices and critical thinking which are addressed through discussion of specific examples. That the intersection between pattern and chaos can evoke a poetic response is noted. The materialityimmateriality of sound is also subjected to a ceaseless coming and going, between all and nothing. Particles of dust and particles of perception seem to intermingle, while the infinity to which nothingness points is also captured.

Keywords: Art ; Biomimetic ; Craft ; Crumpling ; Design ; Folding ; Geometry ; language ; Mathematic ; Morphology ; Nature ; origami ; Paper ; Pattern ; Science ; Stucture