Odin, 2015

Odin a collaboration between Godfrey, Daniel Bosia and team at AKT II, Tomaz Pisanski and Tom Tucker, supported by the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Colgate University was just recognized with a merit award in the Education Category of the 2015 Coda Awards, administered by Codaworx and Interior Design Magazine.

The creation of Odin was supported by the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Colgate University. The three-year research project lead by DeWitt Godfrey, artist, brought together mathematicians Thomas Tucker and Tomaz Pisanski, architect and engineer Daniel Bosia and a group of associate researchers – to engage with mathematical, computational and structural questions that could only be addressed by collaborative team of investigators with complementary expertise. From the outset we chose not to use mathematics and computer science to solve engineering problems, instrumentally demonstrate mathematical forms or fabricate existing physical models but rather intended these methods to generate ideas, mechanisms and processes in a process of form and problem finding. The project applied the analytic and productive power of mathematics and computer science at the heart of the creative process – in order to create structures that reflect the complexity of the natural systems that these digital platforms emulate and to investigate further their mathematical implications.