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Matters of Activity: Rethinking Materiality, Rethinking Knowledge

Matters of Activity: Rethinking Materiality, Rethinking Knowledge

Mareis, Claudia
Ott, Carolin
Werner, Babette

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral ArchitectureIndustrial Design

Publisher Price: $74.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 22, 2026

ISBN10: 3035629765
ISBN13: 9783035629767
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Dec 22 2026
Pages: 336
Language: English

At the book's core lies a quiet but radical idea: matter does not merely serve human thought; it participates in how we think, build, and understand our environments. Fibers, surfaces, and tools from tree bark, fungi, and wool to digital data and clouds become active partners in perception and design processes, co-producing knowledge across laboratories, workshops, studios, and archives, and opening new pathways for human-material interaction. Emerging from the Berlin-based Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence, this volume assembles case studies, essays, and material experiments conducted across the natural sciences, humanities, and design. The underlying collaborative research rethinks materiality as relational, historically situated, and actively shaping the world we inhabit.

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