Material Research
where does it come from
infrastructures
Material in Architecture and Art
use
transport
behavoir
literature / references
The Material Book- Ruby Press
The Dirty Theory - Hélène Frichot
Crossbencher-Markus Miessen
Feral Atlas- Anna Tsing
Donna Haraway
Fire and Clay- Eric Mindling
Abenteuer Erde und Feuer- Gustav Weiß
Cooking Section
Keller Easterling
Bruno Latur
Material Witness- Susan Schuppli
At the Potter'S Wheel- Lambros Malafouris
A thousand years of nonlinear history- Manuel De Landa
The dirt, the earth, is the required ground in which concepts can be planted and eventually bloom as flowers or weeds (either way).
The dirty theorist follows the materials, tracks the soiled effluent, observing from where it came and the direction that is appears to be taking. - Hélène Frichot
most powerfully, following the dirt can be a creative movement, a profound relationship with our local environment-worlds.
hand reaches for and gradually shapes the wet clay lies a whole set of conceptual challenges to some of our most deeply entrenched assumptions about what it means to be a human agent.
