Persisting with material: engaging material behaviour within the digital environment

This chapter examines the idea that material behaviour might persist across the digital/material divide. It looks to the connection between architectural representation and material, and seeks to develop an understanding of persistence as a relational quality that outlives the processes that have created it. This definition suggests structural characteristics that are perhaps not immediately obvious when implemented within architectural models. It opens the idea that materiality might persist into the digital environment, as well as the digital lingering within the material. It implies questions about just how persistence might be implemented within these models, what such models might persist against or what it is, exactly, that persists.