Thinking the Hive

Starting a blog feels strange.

Maybe because most company blogs in the AEC industry (and beyond) provide this aura of certainty and polish, or maybe because of a nagging imposter-syndrome feeling I get while moving from full-time academia to running a practice-oriented business.

But at the same time, this is the same exact reason which motivates me to try writing about this process and my experience from a different place: not of arrival, but of building, testing and growing.

The Computational Hive is the frame through which I am currently trying to reorganize my work and research. It is an attempt to prove that ideas, tools and processes built within academic research can and should be translated into contemporary practice, and that this translation can happen through an open process, where technology is seen not only as an efficiency tool, but as enabler of creativity and innovation.

What this blog wants to be is some sort of a working diary of that process: a way to trace the translation of 10+ years of academic research and development around computational design, open-source and digital fabrication in the very different reality of architectural and construction practices.

I am not entirely sure what you should expect from it. Probably a few opinionated thoughts on the relationship between research and practice, some reflection on the shifting role of computational designers in today's environment, all scattered between development ideas, quick R&D prototypes and the occasional existential questions about whether this makes any sense at all.

In this ever-shifting chaos, this blog is a way to leave traces: what works, what does not, what changes, and what I learn while trying to build open tools and prototypes in the space between research and practice.

If this resonates with you, follow along as the Hive takes shape.