Since the early 2000's the balance between form and function has become heavily biased towards the latter. Technology industries have adopted a Ramsian approach to the design of technology objects such that an object with no visible instructional interface is celebrated. Less and less do devices present themselves as objects for tactile exploration. The experiences they present to the human are increasingly revealed through screens and speech. In this investigation we consider the very physical condition of being human and the human understand of the world around them.

Through parametric design processes data driven surfaces are produced that represent the present environmental phenomena of a non-living object. How might the surface of an object mature when it is capable of responding in more human like ways?

This project was first presented at the IEEE Explore Computing Conference, London, 2017.