Аннотация:Parquet Deformations is a paradigmatic exercise, introduced by William Huff at the Ulm School in the 1960s, to improve students' aptitude for investigating the configurational dimension of space through sequential pattern transformation.This paper proposes a multilevel reading of the exercise, starting from the historical, theoretical and artistic background to frame it later in a perspective of computational experimentation.The purpose is to highlight the pedagogical value of the exercise both as a tool of design thinking than as a valuable device for the contemporary nature of design, which is increasingly characterised by highly specialised application scenarios such as animation and interactive virtual environments that involve a temporal dimension.
