Computational Design Methods for Enhancing Urban Biodiversity - The flight of the bumblebee: Improving urban green for ecosystem services

Abstract

This paper reconsiders the cross-disciplinary connections between music and architecture through 'Cross-Domain Representation' (XDR). XDR is defined as the representation of processes or artefacts from one domain within a different domain, as in the representation of music in the spatial domain. Through a case study of five drummers' improvised responses to a piece of music, the affordances (Norman, 2002) of various methods of XDR reveal new aspects of musical performance. This case study provides an example of how cross-disciplinary practitioners may utilize the tools, methods and media of architectural design to further knowledge in the domain of music in addition to, or as a by-product of creative musico-spatial explorations.