by Future Materials
A selection of audio-only Future Materials Encounters, a series of conversations around the materials of the Future Materials Bank.
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October 17, 2024
<p>If you would like to support the Future Materials Bank, please consider a one-time or monthly donation. We are a non-profit organisation, so your donation will directly contribute to growing the archive and keeping it accessible to everyone. Find out more at <a href="https://www.futurematerialsbank.com/support/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.futurematerialsbank.com/support</a></p> <p>In this new Future Materials Encounters, we talk with artist and designers Jessie French and Kate Scardifield about algae and their use in the field or art, design, industry, and academic research. From Jessie’s and Kate’s stories, algae emerge as materials who can shift boundaries between disciplines, bridging different social realms and distant ecosystems. In this episode, you will learn about the embodied knowledges that are developed through a prolonged engagement with algae; about the ethics of scaling up artistic research; about the ways in which algae offer precious insights not only into environmental, but also into the cultural systems in which art and design operate.</p> <p>Future Materials Encounters are a series of workshops and conversations around the materials of the Future Materials Bank. Each event in the series focuses on a specific material, staging a conversation between the maker and the audience.</p> <p>The Future Materials Bank is an archive of materials that supports and promotes the transition towards ecologically conscious art and design practices. It is part of Future Materials, an initiative of the Nature Research department at the Jan van Eyck Academie.</p> <p><a href="https://www.futurematerialsbank.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.futurematerialsbank.com</a></p>
March 8, 2024
<p>This Future Materials Encounter hosted a talk on fungal mycelium uses in art, design, and architecture, led by Maurizio Montalti, founder of the Amsterdam-based innovation studio Officina Corpuscoli. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Encouraging participants to critically reflect upon material economies within artistic and design practices, Maurizio shared his expertise on the development of new fully circular, biologically based, and environmentally friendly materials he has developed and brought successfully to market, and expanded on symbiotic notions of nature, culture, morphology, and material agency. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Mycelium defines the networked structures of fungi providing symbiotic relationships to plant species through root networks both on large and microscopic scales. When isolated under the correct environmental conditions, mycelium begins to grow, forming natural polymers that bond to a waste, or feed material. Once fused and set, it can become a durable, fire resistant, biodegradable material, adaptable to several applications. The material can proliferate by feeding on decayed organic matter, and current residual waste streams can provide this base material for its growth. Therefore, mycelium can actively participate in circular material economies. Greater still, it epitomises regenerative material processes that can positively encourage inter-species collaboration, leading to more balanced material ecosystems.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Maurizio Montalti is a designer, researcher, educator, and entrepreneur. He is Founder and Creative Director of Amsterdam-based practice Officina Corpuscoli. The studio’s projects mostly stem from critical explorations in regard to contemporary material culture as well as on a continued attempt to decipher the way in which human and non-human come together within the relational complexity of the dynamic ecosystem we all belong to.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The Future Materials Bank is an archive of materials that supports and promotes the transition towards ecologically conscious art and design practices. It is part of <a href="https://www.janvaneyck.nl/postacademy/future-materials">Future Materials</a>, an initiative of the <a href="https://www.janvaneyck.nl/postacademy/nature-research">Nature Research department</a> at the <a href="https://www.janvaneyck.nl/">Jan van Eyck Academie</a>.</p>
February 6, 2024
<p>In this Future Materials Encounter, Giulia Bellinetti, coordinator of the Jan van Eyck <a href="https://www.janvaneyck.nl/postacademy/future-materials" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Future Materials</a> programme, talks with material designer <a href="https://elinetenbusschen.nl/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Eline ten Busschen</a> and designer, artist, researcher <a href="https://peiyinglin.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Pei-Ying Lin</a> about wool and new technologies applied to weaving techniques. </p> <p>They discuss ecologies of materials and complex systems, materials' temperament that emerge during experimentation, A.I. and the blurring of boundaries between natural and digital realms in textile design. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Eline ten Busschen </p> <p>is a product designer with a strong interest in exploring waste streams and their surfaces. Eline believes there is an ecology in the way materials are treated and has adopted a holistic approach that think about the whole lifecycle of a material. Her project SURPLUS, on the <a href="https://www.futurematerialsbank.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Future Materials Bank</a>, features non-woven textiles, using discarded wool fibers held together through 3D printing techniques. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Pei-Ying Lin </p> <p>is an artist, designer and researcher based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Her main focus is on the combination of science and human society through artistic methods, focus she recently expanded towards the manipulation of the boundaries between invisible/visible, living/non-living and finding ways to build tools and methods that facilitate such explorations. She has won the Honorary Mention in Hybrid Arts Category of Ars Electronica 2015, and was among the first group of Taiwanese artists-in-residence of the program of Accelerate@CERN. She is currently conducting a PhD research at the TU Eindhoven on AI technologies applied to weaving techniques. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The podcast is part of a miniseries of Future Materials Encounters organized in the context of The Living Archive, the closing exhibition of the <a href="https://ddw.nl/en/programme/9775/innovationlabs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">InnovatieLab</a> programme, at the <a href="https://www.janvaneyck.nl/calendar/future-materials-dutch-design-week-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Dutch Design Week 2023</a>. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Visit our <a href="https://www.janvaneyck.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">website</a> for more information about the Jan van Eyck Academie, our participants, and programme. </p>
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