Abstract
What if designers were to become more than specifiers of materials, and actually defined the composition of the matter they work with? Granular materials, or rather ‘designed aggregates’, as introduced here by Karola Dierichs, architect and researcher at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD), and Guest‐Editor Achim Menges, are one distinct group of materials that can be considered ‘designed matter’. What makes designed granular systems particularly interesting is that they do not obtain a final structure with preset properties. Instead, their elemental constituents remain unfixed, allowing them to continuously and physically recompute structural and spatial characteristics, challenging our very conception of design.
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