On Folding: Introduction of a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research

Ruga Lumina: Folding Interior Skin with Dynamic Light

“…In recent years, the concept of the fold has emerged as a new field of interdisciplinary research in philosophy, architecture, literature, mathematics, biology, material science, computer science, and in other fields. 5 In The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Gilles Deleuze uses the concept of the fold in order to explain the organization of consciousness and matter. For Deleuze, consciousness is the result of matter that has been folded and refolded until exteriority has become interiority; 6 "to think is to fold, to double the outside with a coextensive inside … the general topology of thought … now ends up in the folding of the outside into the inside … brings the two into confrontation at the limit of living present."…”