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Self-organized Structure in Theory and Production: Contemporary Origami as Mathematical, Mechanical and Cultural System

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Origami is an extensively discussed subject in art, design and mechanism, but new discipline to study with the perspective of inter disciplinary science and cultural history. This paper assumes basic awareness of the artistic and design concept of the audience. It further investigates origami, together with history of math, as a clue of cross cultural study and technology development of the 20th century. Also, it discusses how its self-organization structure is formed artistically, scientifically and industrially, with its special role in art modernization. The paper referee to theories by R. L. Wilder and Thomas. S. Kuhn. Based on the volumetric examples of origami usage, it introduces the topics of science communication and generative design history marked by software development. It tries to construct a multi-aspect view of cultural history through technology, and manifests the perspective of art and humanities in it.

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  1. Peking University, Haidian District, Beijing, China

    Rongrong Zhou

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  1. University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Constantine Stephanidis

  2. Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Margherita Antona

  3. Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Stavroula Ntoa

  4. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Gavriel Salvendy

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Zhou, R. (2022). Self-organized Structure in Theory and Production: Contemporary Origami as Mathematical, Mechanical and Cultural System. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1654. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19679-9_36

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