Why scripting:• reaching beyond analogue processes;• capturing material logic and computing per-formance;• being playful;• exploiting generative processes;■ seeking deeper access to the imagination;• engaging with complexity;• inducing rapid iteration and variation;• grappling with the performative;• toying with the unexpected and delving into the unknown;• being forced to be explicit;• discovering novelty;

Architects are ultimately choreographers of sys-tems, and the benefits of teaching programming in an architectural context are manifold. If archi-tecture wants to survive as a discipline, it needs to engage the culture of innovation and comput-ing. (Mark Collins & Toru Hasegawa, Proxy)

Scripting is the capability offered by almost all design software packages that allows the user to adapt, customise or completely reconfigure soft-ware around their own predilections and modes of working.

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In 2010, the Institute for Com-putational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) designed and constructed a temporary re-search pavilion.

The structure shows the lastest developments in material oriented computational design, simula-tion and production process inar chitecture. The result is a bending active structure made by 6.5mm thin elastically bent birch plywood strips.

CASEY REASProcess Compendium (2004 - now)

An Element is a simple machine that is comprised of a Form and one or more Behaviors. A Process defines an environment for Elements and deter-mines how the relationships between the Elements are visualized... (C.E.B REAS, 2004)