Future Ecologies | Material Trajectories. Designing With Care?
Book Launch on 23 February at Pro qm Bookstore
Cover Material Trajectories, 2023. Coypright Meson Press
»Material Trajectories: Designing With Care?« turns towards material-driven design processes with the aim of relocating technoscientific trajectories. Concerned with new forms of caretaking, it combines positions from the extended fields of design research and humanities scholarship including practice-based approaches. The contributions explore current ecological conditions through multiple acts of making with and seek to complicate questions of sustainability, livability, and cooperation. In reassessing the status quo in design and architecture as material practices, they provide outlines for a nuanced reading of these worldmaking processes and ask what different ways of designing with care and complicity might entail.
The volume is edited by MoA members Léa Perraudin, Clemens Winkler and Claudia Mareis, and Matthias Held, Prorector for Research at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, as outcome of the 2021 Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), organized in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the weißensee school of art and design berlin. It was published as part of the Future Ecologies Series in 2023 by Meson Press. The digital edition can be downloaded freely at the publisher's website: https://meson.press/books/material-trajectories/
Book Launch
The book was launched on Friday, February 23rd, at 7:30 pm at Pro qm Bookstore in Berlin-Mitte. More information can be found here: https://pro-qm.de/event/future-ecologies
Table of contents
9
Series Foreword: Future Ecologies
Petra Löffler, Claudia Mareis, and Florian Sprenger
11
Preface
Claudia Mareis and Matthias Held
15
Designing with Care? A Pending Question
Léa Perraudin and Clemens Winkler
MATERIAL REVISIONS
33
The Design Turn Revisited: A Revolution of Design in the Spirit of Active Matter
Wolfgang Schäffner
49
Re-thinking Urban Materiality in the Age of Climate Change
Anupama Kundoo
POSITIONING CARE
75
Design Politics in the Anthropocene
Joanna Boehnert
89
»Critical Standpoints that are Careful«: Anthropological Relocations for a Performative Study of Design
Michaela Büsse
95
Principles of a »Cosmoarchitecture«
Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou
TECHNOSCIENTIFIC TRAJECTORIES
103
Mammoths and Reindeer: Speculative Design Imaginaries and Technoscientific Care in the Arctic
Martin Müller and Emilia Tikka
123
Biocompatible Radiation: Designing for the Living
Emile De Visscher
135
A Critical Cut Through a Designed Thing: A Short Study on Oblique Matters of Design
Viola S. Ahrensfeld
SYMPOIETIC FUTURITIES
147
Sympoietic Design as an Ethical Project
Susanne Witzgall
161
When Mirrors Metabolize: Towards a Metabolic Perspective in Art and Design
Roman Kirschner
181
Design For Future Coexistences
Fara Peluso
CAREFUL PRACTICES
203
Stop Mixing Materials: Mono-Material and Variety
Lea Schmidt
215
Designing Performative
Surfaces: A Textile Approach to Active Architectural Facades
Maxie Schneider and Ebba Fransén Waldhör
227
Leather As a Carrier of Meaning
Jessica Bulling
247
On Materiability
Manuel Kretzer
267
Designing With Biomaterials: A New Form of Material Understanding
Charlett Wenig