ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some experiments conducted by three teams at the Center for Information Technology in Architecture (CITA) Studio. The experiment's explicit objective requires people to dispense with their preconceptions. Idealized forms may be set aside. The loose fit between foam boards leveraged as knowledge of the environment and system boundaries, and the potential of infinite malleability, comes into focus. The experiment also broadens people's definition of form. When they perform the experiment and engage it directly with their minds and bodies, they open up the possibility of expanding their understanding of the myriad things that they form, and therefore control. The experiment distorts people's reality just enough to provide a glimpse of their power. They do indeed construct boundaries around systems for their own purposes. As people choose what is intrinsic or extrinsic to and a system, and as they delineate relationships between things, they must also acknowledge that bounding is an act of design.
