EthnoComputation: An Inductive Shape Grammar on Toraja Glyph

Encapsulating creative collaborations: A case study in the design of cement tiles

“…While this position might be reasonable in the context of developed economies, recent works started to contest the frictionless adoption of these discourses in the Global South, 6 to evaluate regional challenges in CAAD practice and education, 7 and to propose alternatives to the dominant view of technology as neutral or autonomous. 8 Other works [9][10][11][12][13] address this duality between craftsmanship and computation in different cultural contexts through ethnographic research and encoding of practices, demonstrating possibilities for exploring interactions between disciplines that document traditional knowledge and expand their applications. More recently, Noel 14 elaborated on Computational Regionalism as a process that addresses the gap between traditional techniques and computation in architecture, establishing a framework to combine both while being attentive to the repatriation of this new knowledge.…”

“…Related to the encoding of crafts, Muslimin, 11 based on ethnographic studies of Passura glyphs, presented an inductive approach to develop Shape Grammars when access to the craftsman and their making process is available (in opposition to the deductive approach where one only has access to the artifact) demonstrating how to document design and making knowledge in a tacit environment. Similarly, Noel 12,13 developed the Bailey-Derek Grammar that describes the Trinidad and Tobago wire-bending techniques, discussing how this tool is capable of restoring a craft that is dying due to the absence of a pedagogical system capable of passing down manual knowledge to a new generation, including missing groups in this practice, and expanding the craft applications to other domains, such as architecture.…”