Sticky Correspondence: An animist design encounter
In her project Sticky Correspondence, Taylor Downard asks how adopting a neo-animistic worldview might enrich our experience of interconnectedness and material agency.
Research Hub
Material Imaginaries Research Collective
From the tide of the hands
From the tide of the hands by Yana Dombrowsky operates at a handheld and memorial scale, exploring the affection between hands, materials, and the imaginative space felt through gift-giving.
A Rock with Lots of Holes
A Rock with Lots of Holes is a spatial design research inquiry into place-making. In this work, Silvia Kostandini Ziu investigates a volcanic material imaginary to produce a public space Scoria Ground along the coast of Takapuna, Auckland.
Strange Relations
A design inquiry into infrastructure as topological place
Vacancies and Attenuated Presences
A counter-memorial swimming pool for Waitara