Mediations: from the representation of reality to the generation of the world

Abstract

This essay is part of a wider investigation, which seeks to deepen the understanding of form creation in a comprehensive way. Although it takes the form of a look toward architecture and its relations to the world, this article provides different approaches emerging from the changes affecting socio-cultural context, scientific systems and technological tools, with origins in new forms of knowledge creation, the use of information and technology management.

Based on a series of questions, which include concepts from different disciplines, we consider the form and manner of representing it as a condition of its creation in architecture. We discuss processes (sensory experience and perception, dialogical experience and communication, cognitive experience and learning) which, on the one hand, have in common a generative character, and on the other, occur through interpretation.

The representation of reality, as a complex phenomenon, determines changes in the physical, social and cultural conditions of man, mediating the relationship between humans and their environments, and is interwoven in knowledge spatialization processes as a result of a generative process in which we all participate.