Material Encounters in Art & Design

The puzzle of materiality sits at the bottom of every single human and non-human encounter which has at its centre a complex flow of transformations between form and not-form, or from one substance to another. We reflect on the nature of material practices, making, and process, in the context of research to develop innovative means to communicate and disseminate material insight. We explore aspects of materiality and its nuances in and as research across the following broad themes: - tangibility, touch, digital materiality, language and form, uncertainty, temporality, movement, health, death and grief, medium specificity, image, objectivity and subjectivity.