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Published on: February 4, 2013
Assembling an aesthetic
1Royal College of Art/The Science Museum, School of Humanities, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU, United Kingdom. emily.candela@network.rca.ac.uk
Abstract:
Recent research informing and related to the study of three-dimensional scientific models is assembled here in a way that explores an aesthetic, specifically, of touch. I concentrate on the materiality of models, drawing on insights from the history and philosophy of science, design and metaphysics. This article chronicles the ways in which touch, or material interactions, operate in the world of 3D models, and its role in what models mean and do. I end with a call for greater attention to scientific process, described as assembly of and within science, which is revealed by this focus on touch.
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