Material Acts is an interdisciplinary research initiative exploring the intersections of architecture, craft, and science through material experimentation and ecologies.

Materials are typically described as raw resources, fixed products, or inert objects to be sourced from a shelf in the store—as commodities more than prerequisites for or products of making. Yet, such understandings of materials belie the complex logistical, economic, ecological, and technological actions that transform matter into the material substrate for our lives.

Material Acts is a collaboration between Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu. Initiated as part of  Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the project takes the form of a major exhibition at Craft Contemporary,  publications and essay, public programs, and an editorial project between e-flux Architecture and Craft Contemporary. 

Project Team
Kate Yeh Chiu, co-director