and then there is this: electro - active polymers and Shape shifting..

 Shape shift by Manuel Kretzer

Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Robot Blimp and not as beautiful but interesting..Electroactive polymer (EAP) balloon actuator Inflated electroactive polymer (EAP) actuator driven by dielectric elastomers. The actuator was developed at Empa Dubendorf (Switzerland). More detailed information on this novel actuator technology can be found at www.empa.ch/eap/.

Reading and having mind blown ( again) by Interacting: Art, Research and the Creative Practioner.

From Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds at the Creativity and Cognition studio at UTS. Lots of Schon -Reflective Practitioner (1983) and Dewey - Art and Experience (1934) with rigorous commentary by Scrivener.
"In projective reflective practice the maker must make ways of making a situation that perplexes, …this is the second feature of art and design knowledge production, as distinct from problem solving production.
That is to say practice that willfully seeks to yield artifactual situations…
in short a practice of 'problemitising' everyday practice for the purposes of generating the unexpected. ..it is the gap between prior understanding and surprise which constitutes new knowledge and understanding" ( p. 70)