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Inmaterial 11_Editorial_Luis Guerra
is new issue of Inmaterial starts with the contribution of two artist researchers,
Sina Hensel, and Anja Neuefeind, both from the Department of Visual Arts at the
RWTH Aachen University, titled “Colour agencies a practice-based research pro-
ject in search of a contemporary understanding of colour”. Conceived in 2020 as a
research project and it was “implemented as a teaching format”, the article brings
up a series of questions regarding colouring methods, their agency in dierent
design practices and their intertwined condition with non-human, and human
beings, materials and environments. Since the article presents some result of an
ongoing practice-based research project, funded by Curriculum 4.0 of the Ministry
of Culture and Science Nordrhein-Westfalen in cooperation with Stierverband
NRW, it allows us to grasp the critical complexity of a design and art practice that,
as the authors expose, blurs the spaces between research and teaching.
“Understanding Design as a messy socio-technical Actor-Network”, by Dr. phil.
Yamil Hasbun, researcher and a teacher at the School of Arts and Visual Communi-
cations at the Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, contemplates the eld of contem-
porary design eld in all its complexity. It highlights the necessity of a new ontolo-
gical approach to its agency, taking into consideration the radical and accelerated
changes our worlds are experiencing and envisioning. is article dees both the
historical denitions of design and its modernist teleological perspectives, oering
instead an approach that rethinks design critically, in relation to other agencies
beyond the xed human spectrum.
e following article, “Laboratorios audiovisuales abiertos como espacios de
formación, investigación, producción audiovisual y artística de la ciudadanía en
la lógica del procomún. Estudio de caso Tabakalera de Donostia (España)”, by
Cristina Fernández Espinosa, Teacher in the Higher Studies of Graphic Design at
EASDI Corella; School of Arts and Design of Corella, a public center belonging
to the Government of Navarra, explores the importance of the open audiovisual
laboratories as “mediators”, understood as sociocultural agents actively involved
in the building of participatory and engaged societies. Taking as a main source the
case of Tabakalera in Donostia, the article examines around the design concept of
maker space. A maker space is a hybrid territory, a lab where contributes to blur the
distinctions between producers and spectators. e author presents her theoretical
approach, relying also on an analytical data produced by the research itself, that
add value to the conceptualization of the open laboratories.
e article “Anar al cine amb Donna Haraway. En busca d’un cinema situat”, by Pau
Pericas, audiovisual producer and associate professor at the University of Barce-