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Auteur principal: Kostas, Theodoros G.
Format: Recurso digital
Langue:anglais
Publié: Zenodo 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20400471
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  • <p>This research essay proposes a theoretical model of form as a temporal, perceptual, and morphogenetic event. Against the conventional understanding of form as a fixed object, finished contour, or stable geometric result, it argues that form emerges when a field of temporal points, differences, tensions, and perceptual relations reaches a threshold of recognizability.</p> <p>The paper develops the concept of the temporal point as a minimal event of distinction: a point at which relation, memory, movement, anticipation, and aesthetic intelligibility begin to condense. Through a theoretical constellation including Jean Piaget, Alain Berthoz, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon, Bernard Cache, and Mario Carpo, the essay frames form not as an inert object but as a metastable condition of emergence.</p> <p>The central thesis is that form is neither pure geometry nor arbitrary variation. It is the provisional discipline of indeterminacy: the moment at which a process becomes sufficiently coherent to be perceived without becoming fully closed. In this sense, design is not merely the production of objects, but the organization of conditions through which form may happen.</p> <p>This paper belongs to the broader Design as Event research corpus developed by Theodoros G. Kostas.</p>