#Embodiment #Biotensegrity - How big is an action? - "Where does an action reside? When we reach for a cup of coffee, is the action in the hand, the arm, the anticipatory postural adjustments rippling through the legs, the visual guidance from the eyes, or the neural activity spanning cortex to spinal cord? Movement science has long sought to localize control—to identify the privileged scale or anatomical locus where action is specified. Yet physiological evidence increasingly suggests that this localization may be fundamentally intractable. From ion channels operating on microsecond timescales to developmental changes unfolding across years, from molecular motors to whole-body coordination with the environment, movement cascades across spatial and temporal scales in ways that resist decomposition. Here, we explore this intractability not as a problem to be solved but as an invitation to reimagine what movement is." - Madhur Mangalam, Department of Biomechanics, University of Nebraska https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400068748_How_big_is_an_action

#Embodiment #Biotensegrity #Fascia - Organ, System, or Tissue? A Phenomenological Embryological Approach. A Critical Philosophical Paper on Fascia as a Domain not Fitting into the Usual Anatomical Mapping - "A phenomenological analysis of embryonic development now suggests that fascia is better understood as the inner-tissue that forms a continuous multi-dimensional matrix and thereby lays the foundation for physical cohesion of the body. The fascia is then no longer just another discrete anatomical system but is characterized by its continuities and the prerequisite for the formation of all the body’s ‘parts’. [...] Understanding fascia from this broader perspective thus requires a consideration of embryonic development as a whole-body process: one in which the ‘inner-self’ differentiates into the recognizable organs and tissues of anatomy." - Jaap C. Van Der Wal, Graham Scarr https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202601.0175

#Biotensegrity is the super-stability hypothesis for #biology - "The biotensegrity concept is based on a fundamental set of self-organizing principles. Tensegrity structures are the physical representations of invisible force-vectors. Living organisms as intrinsically-stable tensegrity frameworks. The closed-chain kinematics of tensegrity replaces the contrived machine/lever model. Super-stability as a general mathematical framework for biological transformations." - #OpenAccess Full Length Article by Graham Scarr, Leonid Blyum, Stephen M. Levin, S. Lowell de Solórzano, Biotensegrity is the super-stability hypothesis for biology, BioSystems, Volume 256, 2025, 105569, ISSN 0303-2647, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105569

#Fascia #Biotensegrity #Tensegrity - From Kit to Sculpture - A 30-Strut Tensegrity in 30 Seconds - Watch a floating icosahedron come to life in just 30 seconds. No glue, no tools—just tension, structure, and a little patent-pending assembly magic - Minimo Kinetics - Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3022yiWfY&t=2s

#Biotensegrity - 7 Things even "experts" get wrong about biotensegrity - As biotensegrity becomes more and more popular, there are a lot of misunderstandings concurrently popping up. Biotensegrity is amazingly complex, so it's understandable! - Susan Lowell de Solórzano - Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtF6l2g09cQ

#Tensegrity #Biotensegrity - Complex tensegrity structure - Albert II Project Summary - "The Albert II project is an undertaking to develop a complex tensegrity structure, evolving from the initial Albert model by Tom Flemons from 2005 (intensiondesigns.ca). In early 2023 I created a duplicate Albert mirroring Flemons’ design. Over the past ten months, I have been working with Dorothea Blostein to create an updated Albert to represent several key concepts of tensegrity as applied to the structure of the human body." - Mike Oleon https://mike-o.notion.site/Albert-II-Project-Summary-Spring-2024-2b7624a2223349d9b9dd35a40c3f2444

#Locomotion #Biotensegrity - Bouncing bones — ancient wisdom meets modern science in a new take on locomotion - "Recognizing that conventional understanding of animal and human locomotion is based on a dated and reductionist machine modeling of organisms, we set out to create a theory of locomotion by reasoning from first principles. We center on the constraints necessitated by 1) the 2nd law of thermodynamics, 2) the theory of evolution, 3) a systems science view of organisms, and 4) the laws of motion, but we also look for compatibility these constraints might find in emerging areas of scientific inquiry (ecological psychology, processual biology, soft matter, biotensegrity), and in the wisdom embedded in various movement traditions and ancient philosophy. Applying and synthesizing these, we propose an updated “bouncing bones” (BB) model for walking and running, which corresponds with maximum efficiency and conservation of energy." - Stephen M. Levin, Susan Lowell de Solórzano https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2024.1432410

What is #biotensegrity? Could it be the new #biomechanics? A short introduction to biotensegrity by Embodied Biotensegrity - Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRLJZN7HEsw

#Biotensegrity #Fascia - Explore the living world - Browse exclusive videos from inside living human tissue like a surgeon - Based on the work of Jean Claude Guiberteau M.D, surgeon specialist in reconstructive and plastic surgery, Endovivo presents video-films, photos and books about the knowledge of the human living matter - Endovivo Productions - € https://www.endovivo.com/?lang=en

#Biotensegrity #Tensegrity - Tensegrity Applications to Architecture, Engineering and Robotics: A Review - "This paper aims to fill this gap by giving an overview of all the recent real applications that tensegrity has had during its short life, at the same time exposing its potential in all the fields it has contributed to (AEC, robotics, space, etc.)" - Applied Sciences Journal Volume 13 Issue 15 https://www.mdpi.com/2408438