Material Acts

Material Acts is a symposium that brings together artists, designers, and architects experimenting with material processes and systems. Against the backdrop of accelerating environmental degradation, architectural practices such as Anupama Kundoo, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Post Rock, and Emerging Objects challenge traditional modes of building (and making), by framing materials as a chain of operations, rather than fixed objects.  

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. 

Organized in partnership with Craft Contemporary, University of Southern California School of Architecture and Harvey Mudd College. 

Other events in Material Acts

Material Acts: Curator Walkthrough

Sunday, Oct 6

11AM 

Craft Contemporary

Material Acts: Curator Walkthrough

Sun, Nov 3

11AM 

Craft Contemporary

RSVP Required

https://arch.usc.edu/events/material-acts

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