Something in the world tears away, jumps out, approaches. A world that approaches is a world that is alive and vivid. This applies not only to the existing natural world, but also to what humans create, which, in form the form of artifacts - from the hand-held ax to linguistic theory - also approaches design in terms of both object and challenge. The authors of this volume attempt to track the movements of thought between form and form process, image and image file, representation and presence in terms of both theory and practice.

Franz Engel and Sabine Marienberg, Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment, Berlin