Sunday, 3 June 2012

Materials.....Materiality...

I think the studio is a difficult place for this project. It is very hard not to default to the human manipulation of materials in this context , and instead embrace collaboration. It was easier when it was raining on the roof - what can I do to remind myself? 


I need a big bowl of water in the middle of the room to trip over. 



The problem is , when water is trapped, not moving, it dies somehow - I start to have something dead in the room, and I habituate to this. 


Materials : the matter from which a thing is made - referring to the physical rather than mind or spirit

Material Agency: The assumption that non human matter and life has intention. Material Agency is at the centre of a non - anthropocentric view on 'how things happen' - taking a distributed, relational, rather than linear approach.  

Materiality: Materiality in architecture is the concept of, or applied use of, various materials or substances in the medium of building.

Material Semiotics: The idea that relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and semiotic (between concepts).




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