In his research project, The Value of Waste Material, Terry Li explores the upcycling of the excessive amounts of high-density polyethylene produced by New Zealand’s coffee culture.
In her project Sticky Correspondence, Taylor Downard asks how adopting a neo-animistic worldview might enrich our experience of interconnectedness and material agency.
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 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.
This practice-led research from Rachelle Moore explores how the hybrid knit-weave technique, inlay, can be used to build knitted surface topographies through the assemblage of material forces.
Performing ineffable spaces of ruin
An exploration of the ambiguity and significance of everyday affordable sustainable clothing
An investigation of 3-dimensional knitted form-building
