discuss how such collaboration builds on generational continuities of technological innovation, and the ways in which their work has developed by recombining their individual interests and areas of expertise into a shared knowledge base through the process of developing specific designs. Physical space and projects thus become a site for the production of collective intelligence both as a design process and in the use of the end product. Ann Hamilton with Small Design Firm and EAR Studio, Facade Ecology, 2003-06Animation stills from the schematic proposal for a building membrane installation at the University of Minnesota's Molecular and Cellular Biology Building. Ben Rubin and Ann Hamilton generated this concept animation, which articulates the progression of light as it circulates through the building skin of the research facility. Small Design Firm investigated the informational potential of this lighting system by developing a biological simulation for the generation of graphic material.

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Nathalie Sarraute's short intense plays dramatize the inner movements and emotions which she calls tropisms. There is no plot, no surface action in these works, and in this they typify an important trend in twentieth century theatre. The effect of these plays where nothing happens is far from static, however, and this article examines Le Silence and C'est beau to discover how this effect is achieved, how the author creates a variety of tension and a feeling of dramatic momentum. Using the actantial model first proposed by Souriau as an analytical tool it can be shown that within the basic situtation, which does not change, we have a series of microdramas, shifting alliances and conflicts. These are plays about what lies beneath the everyday, and they are structured to maintain a tension, sometimes comic sometimes cruel, between the surface and the depths.

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