Re-mix as a Design Strategy

Abstract

This research explores re-mix as a notion and product of interactive culture that centers the genesis of the new project and other artistic practices in the coexistence of texts from the analog past and the digital present, the very essence of design strategy in architecture, related to current practices resulting from a systematic assembly logic. Aiming to establish to what extent it is feasible to move the concrete corpus of elements and principles of re-mix towards the configuration of a design strategy in architecture, the arguments presented are developed from the following phases; review of re-mix as a concept and product of interactivity, interpretation of artistic and cultural practices that have engaged it as a creative process and the comparison of the results of the review and interpretation in the most recurring project procedures specific to architecture. It was observed that architectural composition procedures, such as superposition, concatenation and typological variation reveal properties that follow the creative process characterizing re-mix as reproduction and rewriting of information.