Academic year
2024/2025
Human beings have built their history on matter. They have extracted, moulded and discarded it, at an ever-increasing speed and on an ever-greater scale. However, in their hands, matter has lost its way back. We no longer leave traces: we leave waste.
Matterness was born out of this problem, not from the urgency of recycling, but from the desire for attention. It proposes listening to matter, recognising that it has its own rhythms, limits and forms of existence.
To this end, the project is developed through thought and practice. The result is an essay that brings together authors who contribute to this new perspective on matter, and a collaborative web platform that explores biomaterials as possible answers.