Design as Event: Temporal Articulation and Morphogenetic Reorganization in Computational Design

This preprint argues that design should be understood not as a linear process of formal development, but as an event: a temporally constituted reorganization through which form emerges under conditions of admissibility, discontinuity, and morphogenetic articulation. Against dominant computational paradigms that treat time as a secondary parameter within state-space operations, the paper proposes a different theoretical framework in which time acts as a generative material of form. It examines temporal directionality, frame density, causal legibility, distributed energetic organization, relational voids, and transformational discontinuities as constitutive dimensions of computational design. The argument is further grounded in the Deep Morphogenesis Chamber, presented as an instrument-case that operationalizes event-based design logic through weighted admissibility, temporal condensation, and persistent specimen formation. The paper advances a discipline-level proposition: computational design remains limited so long as it treats time as sequencing rather than constitution. In response, it proposes a model in which form is understood as temporal configuration and design as event.