MaTecSus - Materiality, Technology and Sustainability
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Materiality and technology has multiple historical connections to a culture's craft traditions, and future possibilities in a digital age.
The classic connection techne - ars links technology and materiality to the field of art and creative processes, to product development, design and entrepreneurship, but also to consumption and overconsumption. In a culture's materiality and technology lie issues of an environmental, historical, aesthetic and innovative nature.
Materiality in a digital age is a core issue in the subject of art and design in education. It concerns creative processes, knowledge of materials and knowledge development in all kinds of media and areas within design, art, architecture and visual communication. Materiality concerns the organization of teaching, workshop learning, learning activities and play, resource use in a total capacity perspective.
The MaTecSus research group works at the interconnection between established research paradigms and artistic informed research.
