Assembling an aesthetic
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Candela, Emily
Date published
December 2012
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.
Journal title
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
Volume
16
Issue
5-Jun
Publisher
Elsevier BV
ISSN
1367-5931
Official URL
Rights statement
In Copyright