Origami and project: by an investigation of the paradigm fold/folding in the contemporary design

• Grant number: 11/06574-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): November 01, 2011
• Effective date (End): October 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Dorival Campos Rossi
• Grantee: Samanta Aline Teixeira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Under the new representations and performances that the art of paper folding keeps, this research aims to investigate the various links that the origami can make with design. After crossing several generations and countries, note that the functions of origami are more comprehensive than simply making art objects: the bend initiates a series of new buildings within the design and creation. To better understand the actual origami, relations are used inside branch of math, conceptual and projectual. Relating theorists, artists, designers, etc., can point out the relevance of each of these areas in the configuration of projectual origami. The modularity, the collective, the conscious build, the contemporary and the innovation are relationships intrinsic to the praxis projectual that shape a landscape adjacent and subordinate to the main structure governing this research project. We bet on the essence of origami as a tangible functionality for creative thinking. (AU)