Titile – Pia Ednie-Brown. The Will to Animation.

Keywords – Skin. Animation. Generative processes. Explicit movements. Emergence. Dynamic synthesis. Texture. Mould. Fold. The Process of Becoming.

Thoughts – The Will to Animation – A concept out of Nietzche’s ‘Will to Power’. This concept is built through a capacity for supple transformations that are politic and relevant to the animated forms of power that mould political landscapes.

Animation in architecture – buildings involve explicit movement, generative processes, using animation software and notions of curvilinearity.

Skin – exhibits a willingness to remain sensitive to its engaging materials and conditions. It has the capacity to deform without falling apart and to transform without falling apart.

Texture – a tendency of variation, a variable consistency.

Mould - the rigid mould. Submissive and servile. Deviation and deformation from the mould become invalid, illegal. The politics of the flexible mould is one of an affirmation of the force of expression in its multiplicity. A mould with flexible skin. Deleuze’s paper Postscript of Control, ‘Confinements are moulds, different mouldings, while controls are a modulation, like a self-ransmitting moulding continually changing from one moment to the next, or like a sieve whose mesh varies from one point to another”.

Folding – an object folded inside out is rotated through the fourth dimension. Actual form is immanence as it has folded out of itself.

The process of becoming – the will to animation is not a matter of rushing out to make things move, but a question of the terms through which architecture becomes animate as a technology in itself. In animation architecture realises its potential as an animated diagram; a diagram in the process of becoming.