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FERAL WOOL. Designing with a vibrant matter with care and cosmoecological perspective in times of troubled abundance

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v9.204

Keywords:

Multiespecies, Wool, Cosmologies, Trouble, Speculative Design

Abstract

Feral Wool is an ongoing research-through-design project that takes place in the South Tyrol region in Italy. It explores the concept of overflowing and overlooked local wool that becomes a troubled abundance due to the global dynamics of the “Capitalocene”. By calling wool "feral” as an entry point, we highlight the abandonment of a precious matter while regenerating narratives of plural cosmo-ecologies. Through design, the project traces invisible and neglected stakeholders to open up space for new alliances to imagine alternative futures of local wool. Our article poses the following questions: What other cosmologies need to be considered to bind interspecies relations and foster care? What other new aesthetics of wool need to be discovered as a “matter of care” and relationality? We address these questions by unfolding research insights into new care practices and processes while also representing a visualisation of wool cosmology which will serve as a basis for multispecies dreaming for wool futures. 

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Seçil Uğur Yavuz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Bolzano, Italia)

She is an associate professor at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Design and Art. She is currently the study course director of Eco-Social Design Master. She had her PhD degree in Design, from Politecnico di Milano, in 2012. Through participatory design and co-design methods, her research aims at opening debate and stimulating new visions of interaction within the entanglement of our socio and technological spheres towards sustainable and desirable future(s). She is a member of Social Design Network, New European Bauhaus of Mountains and Competence Center for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems (unibz).  

Merve Bektaş , Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Bolzano, Italia)

Istanbul-born Merve Bektaş, is a designer, artist, and researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, working on the intersection of practice-based research and eco-social transformation. Trained in Industrial Product Design, she completed her master’s degree with her thesis research project Glocal Worm-ing at unibz with honour. In this project, earthworms are active agents to transform human-soil relations for multispecies flourishing. The project was exhibited in various exhibitions, such as the Museum of Nature South Tyrol for six months, followed by the Long Night of Research. Since 2021, she has been organizing co-creative workshops exploring soil, dirt, and compost as a space for artistic and design research and as ecologies of relations. Merve was a guest speaker at MUSEION - Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the exhibition Neo Soil, by Asad Raza. She is a member of Lungomare Bozen-Bolzano, which is a platform for design, art, and cultural production and Competence Center for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems (unibz).   

Camilo Ayala-Garcia , Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Bolzano, Italia)

Camilo Ayala-Garcia is a Colombian designer, professor and researcher.   He obtained his PhD on the topic of Do-It-Yourself Materials as triggers of change at Politecnico di Milano. Before this PhD research, Camilo received a Master of Arts in Design degree from Domus Academy in Milan, awarded with Distinction. He is trained as an Industrial Designer and a Textile Designer at the Los Andes University in Bogotá. Camilo work as a researcher in the Design Friction Lab at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, bridging emerging technologies and materialities towards a transitional circularity. He devoted his research to local materials and product development together with his teaching activities, with several patents granted and different academic contributions published. He is a member of the Materials Experience Lab and Competence Center for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems (unibz).

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2024-06-28 — Updated on 2024-07-17

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[1]
Uğur Yavuz, S., Bektaş, M. and Ayala Garcia, C. 2024. FERAL WOOL. Designing with a vibrant matter with care and cosmoecological perspective in times of troubled abundance . INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad. 9, 17 (Jul. 2024), 10–45 p. DOI:https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v9.204.