Gursoy, BenayOzkar, Mine2024-07-182024-07-1820150142-694X1872-6909https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2015.08.007https://hdl.handle.net/11411/7317The increasing interest in materiality currently challenges the long existing traditions that consider visual thinking as the primary actor in design creativity. Shape grammars offer a formalism to represent visual reasoning in design, which is never purely limited to the visual aspects of design processes. Aiming to develop ways to explicitly include material manipulation in a computational formalism, we report on an ongoing exploration of how shape computation extends beyond abstract visual shapes to incorporate material shapes that have a physical existence. We present a materially informed process with shape rules and show that we can apply these rules creatively to explore the physical character of the material. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessMaterial ComputingComputational ModelsDesign ActivityParametric DesignReasoningArticle2-s2.0-8494786256210.1016/j.destud.2015.08.00750Q12941Q1WOS:000365363400003