SYMPOSIUM
FRI. NOV. 22—23, 2024
Material Acts: A Symposium brings together artists, designers, and architects experimenting with material processes and systems. Understanding materials as process-based events with human actors, rather than artifacts found in stasis, this symposium on new materials explores the rich milieu of ideas that accompany their making, including practices in bioregional design, waste economies, and living systems, alongside perspectives of care, constraint, and regeneration.
Contributors include Anupama Kundoo, Atelier LUMA, Ben Loescher, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Christine Yogiaman, Katie MacDonald, Matthias Kohler, and Meredith Miller, will present their research and thinking against the backdrop of accelerating environmental degradation, framing materials as a chain of operations, rather than fixed objects.
Events held between Craft Contemporary and the USC School of Architecture.Please note: USC Campus requires guest registration for all visitors. RSVP is required. Upon RSVP, guests will receive parking and campus access code one week before the event. Please contact organizers at materialacts@gmail.com for questions or concerns.
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Material Acts: A Symposium
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAFRI. NOV. 22—23, 2024
Material Acts: A Symposium brings together artists, designers, and architects experimenting with material processes and systems. Understanding materials as process-based events with human actors, rather than artifacts found in stasis, this symposium on new materials explores the rich milieu of ideas that accompany their making, including practices in bioregional design, waste economies, and living systems, alongside perspectives of care, constraint, and regeneration.
Contributors include Anupama Kundoo, Atelier LUMA, Ben Loescher, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Christine Yogiaman, Katie MacDonald, Matthias Kohler, and Meredith Miller, will present their research and thinking against the backdrop of accelerating environmental degradation, framing materials as a chain of operations, rather than fixed objects.
Events held between Craft Contemporary and the USC School of Architecture.Please note: USC Campus requires guest registration for all visitors. RSVP is required. Upon RSVP, guests will receive parking and campus access code one week before the event. Please contact organizers at materialacts@gmail.com for questions or concerns.
