Indeterminacy

Definition: The character of something undefined, unestablished, not precisely outlined. (Gamboni, 2002 p.13)


from Anca Dumitrescu, 5th year student at University of Sheffield discussing a forum held on Architecture and Indeterminacy:
"We talked about architecture and its becoming, emergence and clustering, dead-zones and negative spaces, edge spaces, terrain vague and subcultures, dream-like surreal objects bearing no usefulness: formless, mass less, colourless, dimensionless, weightless, odourless, centre less, featureless. We talked about empty and silent spaces, about network cultures and markets, about planned non-specificity and dwelling, about maps and traces in the city, about practical experience, about morals and ethics in an almost contingent practice, about meanings and words - all in order to understand, to outline an idea about what 'INdetermined Architecture' might mean.


'Indeterminate as opposed to determinate means: 1. not precisely fixed in extent, indefinite, uncertain; 2. not clear, vague; 3. not established; 4. not settled or decided
http://www.shef.ac.uk/architecture/main/gallery/gal/diploma/theoryforum07/index.html



Imagining the Tenth DimensionThis is the first part of the animation illustrating the concepts found in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension - a new way of thinking about time and space" by Rob Bryanton, from tenthdimension.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA


Complexity Graphicshttp://www.complexitygraphics.com/#708732/GEO-Textures
"you can either call it Complexism or Networkism ... where imaginary landscapes of interconnected entities are the prevailing theme."

Julian Busch - Indeterminate drawing device g32

http://www.phillennium.com/blog/archives/339

Coop Himmelb(l)au, ZAK - Zukunfstakademie, 1999

This piece sets a handful of enclosures of incomplete organicism up into space. It dangles, or more likely casts - in the way of a fishing line - a series of tracks. It does not worry about convention. Peter Cook




The idea of indeterminacy is ‘to be open to unanticipated situations, unforeseen connections, to act more by transformation than by analogy or symbolisms, since the latter may consign us to unwanted units of meaning. But above all to be concious that is impossible to predict the totality of the experience, the attention paid, the response of the spectator. We might define an architecture of indeterminacy as an architecture conscious that it will be looked at dispersedly, scatteredly, passively’
Yago Conde Architecture of the Indeterminacy


‘Ephemeralisation: the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing”
Buckminster Fuller.