Structure, Innovation and Agency in Pattern Construction

This chapter discusses the intentionality in the design and generation of non-representational form. It points in particular to the problem of ‘locating’ creativity within the design process and to the connection between redundancy and novelty in relation to technique, where technique carries with it structural implications. The emergence of printed referents during this period is wholly surprising. The decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were marked by major social and political developments in colonial south India that were to affect dramatically the lives of urban women and thrust folklore to the forefront of public consciousness. Chennai - formally known as Madras - is the fourth largest city in India, the former administrative centre of the Madras Presidency. Today a major commercial and manufacturing centre, educational hub, tourist destination, one of the principle ports of India, the modern city is marked by its cosmopolitanism, drawing temporary workers and permanent settlers of various social, cultural backgrounds from throughout India.

Agency (philosophy) · Geography · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Anthropology · Architecture and Computational Design · Architecture and Cultural Influences

• Objets, personnes, esprits

  Olivier Allard•Gradhiva•2010

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• From the Bush to the Cloud

  Claire Langsford•Sites a journal of social…•2017

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• Creativity in Context

  Open Access•Vlad Petre Glăveanu•Psychological Studies•2010

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• Transformations of the Line

  T Ingold•TEXTILE•2010

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• Semiotic Dimensions of Creativity

  E Wilf•Annual Review of Anthropology•2014

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