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Bi-Leaf - Morphology of a Movement, Antonia Dönitz, Master Thesis Textile and Material Design, 2024. Image Copyright: Antonia Dönitz / weißensee school of art and design
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Tracing paraffin accumulations. Fieldwork on the coastline of the Curonian Spit in the Neringa Nature Reserve, Léa Perraudin and Iva Rešetar. 2024. Copyright: Iva Rešetar
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Verbautes Wetter. Copyright: Literaturforum am Brechthaus
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Film Still Building (with) Nature, 2023. Copyright: Michaela Büsse.
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Round Table »Poetics and Politics of Sand«. Design: studioeins, adapted by Matters of Activity
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Poster Material Legacies. Image: Dietrich Polenz and the Experimental Surgery Lab, 2020
By engaging with a series of different materials and techniques the exhibition encompassed both the problematization of unsustainable pasts and presents as well as the imagination of speculative material futures. Taking materiality as a starting point, each of the exhibits investigated its sociocultural, economic, and political context in order to disentangle the multiple interrelations that arise from and with materials. more
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Dis/Entangling Material Futures. Copyright: Claudia Mareis
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Sand ruler captured at the labs of Deltares in Delft, Michaela Büsse, 2021
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Land recalmation in Penang (Malaysia). Copyright: Michaela Büsse
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Open Space Event, 9 November 2023. Copyright: Matters of Activity
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Film still »Assembling the Coast«
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Sand Corn. Copyright: Michaela Büsse
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Premiere »White Elephant« at MoA’s Annual Conference »Deep Material Futures« 2022