Material Trajectories

This edited volume is the outcome of the 2021 Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), organized in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. The constellation of these three institutions shaped the theme of the conference, “Material Trajectories. Designing with Care” as they all have a long history of exploring the possibilities and complications of design and material culture in theory and practice. This book is thus conceived as a collaborative attempt by interdisciplinary scholars and design practitioners to explore the foundations of a new material culture. It is about exploring and problematizing material trajectories and entanglements, as well as opening up new and different ways of designing with modesty, complicity, and care.