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Hi Matīss! Great exploration of the links that digital simulation has with the physical world. It's exciting that Jussi will be moderating our panel, since I think that your descriptions of the "ongoing enmeshment of computational and material worlds" has a lot of resonance with his interpretation of operational images. Your approach to this topic seems centered on visual techniques as well, though you establish a wider foundation for "simulation" by grounding it through "computation" as the primary operating framework. Though we're talking about BIMs and other methods that rely on visual techniques, the digital/computational anchor of your analysis brings focus to the information flows that are afforded by the visual, rather than the visual itself. Meaning that your work is keeping our attention on the content of these visual techniques, and the transformations the content undergoes between digital and physical forms (which I appreciate because I also share a similar interest!).

I feel like occasionally, there's an implied causality in this piece between digital and physical representations. An example is "Most buildings nowadays are built at least twice—first as a model, then as a physical object." You're definitely onto something with linkage between virtual abstractions and physical constructions, though I'd say there's a lot of cases where digital and physical spaces are coevolving. In some of the cases I'm thinking about, the construction site, its physicality, functions as generative material for the development of digital mirror worlds, which then go on to structure the buildings-to-come at the site. It's a push-and-pull dynamic that makes it hard to put one in front of the other. I'm curious what you think about this, and I'm excited to talk more!