Here we explore Victoria's asserting that **art** (creativity?) is deeply related to the **medium**. So...
Identify the plasticity for each artist.
"How do you change the medium? And how are you changed by interacting with it?" she asked.
Ward asked Eric: how did you change and how were you changed by architecture as media in your education?
A peer used a tablet computer and pen to create a simulation of tracing paper. Eric discouraged the proposal at the onset of that project. "We already have tracing paper. Why not do something new? Something that can a computer can do that pen and paper cannot?"
Yet at the end of the semester, when the simulation was demonstrated, the peer put the tablet computer in the hands of an experienced architect who was computer illiterate. With the familiar interface of tracing, the architect was immediately productive in developing an impromptu floor plan for a small home. There was no struggling with the interface.
A particularly memorable flourish came after the architect had finished when the design was replayed! Each stroke and gesture, each new layer of trace had been recorded and the audience could reflect on the architect's design process.
Eric was changed by the recognition that simulating pen and paper provided an approachable design tool—meeting the target customer where they were instead of asking them to learn a new way of working.