Designing Complexity. Remarks about Design Modeling Symposium

The third edition of Design Modelling Symposium, held in Berlin at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK) from 7th to 12th October, turned into a privileged observatory of the challenge that researchers and designers from disparate fields are facing in the attempt to control the complex system of contemporary architecture. The article is a conversation between a designer (Sabina Barcucci) and a sociologist (Bertram Niessen) about the main consequences of parametric design: the new centrality of data in new production systems; the Building Information Modeling (BIM); the relationship among predictability, control and responsibility; aesthetics of computation and city branding.