areas of research

· Experiencing models

o The experience of scale

o The miniature

o The sublime

o The spiritual

· The formation of models

o Models as actors in a network

o Models as social-historical-economic artefacts

o Skill, technique and craft

· The role of the model in the design process

· Modelling function

· Modelling sensation

· Visioning invisibility

· Modelling form

o Variation

o Repetition & difference

o Sets & series

o Topologies

· Taxonomies of forms

· Models as communication devices

o Models as metaphors

o Reading models

o Representation

o Depiction

o The rhetoric of models (persuasion)

o Models as marketing tools

· Modelling Space

o Geometric studies

o Spatial analysis

· The imaginary

· Models as thinking mechanisms

· Concept v. reality

· Performativity of models (testing the world)

o The role of prototypes

o Everything is a model - Eliasson

· The relationship between digital and analogue models

· Model as copy or iteration

· Models as pedagogical devices