Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter

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https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v10.320

Abstract

This issue proposes rethinking the understanding of matter, moving from seeing it as a mere available resource to considering it as a relational and emergent phenomenon, capable of intra-acting with humans and environments. These eight articles show how situated and collaborative practices allow us to recognize the agency of matter and its active participation in the co-production of the world, guided by an ethics of responsible and regenerative design that integrates the material, the social, and the political. 

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Olga Subirós, Researcher, curator. an indenpendent architech

Researcher, curator, and architect from ETSAB (UPC), PhD in architecture and urban design from RMIT University. Her research and practice Displaying Emergency explores a curatorial/spatial architecture to make contemporary social and ecological emergences visible  ecological emergencies Among her exhibition projects are Matter Matters. Designing with the World (Design Museum–DHUB), Air/Aria/Aire (Catalonia Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale), and Big Bang Data (CCCB). 

Jorge Luis Marzo, BAU, University Centre of Arts and Design (Barcelona, Spain)

Art historian, PhD in Cultural Studies, and professor of Iconology at BAU—Barcelona University Centre of Arts and Design. He has developed numerous projects related to image politics in exhibition, audiovisual, and editorial formats. His most recent works include: Tristes pupilas. Vida y muerte de las mascaronas de proa (2025); La curva. Patologías gráficas (2024), Biennal 2064 (2023), Actuar en la emergencia. Diseño y pandemia (2021-2024), Las videntes. Imágenes en la era de la predicción (2021; edició italiana, 2025). 

Mariona Moncunill-Piñas, BAU, University Centre of Arts and Design (Barcelona, Spain)

Artist, researcher, and lecturer in the Design and Fine Arts degrees at BAU, University Centre of Arts and Design. Editor of the journal Inmaterial. Design, Art and Society. PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from UOC, Master’s in Cultural Management, and Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. 

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- Aldecoa, I. (1951). “Biografía de un mascarón de proa”. En Aldecoa, J.R. (ed.) (2018) Ignacio Aldecoa. Cuentos completos. Madrid: Alfaguara

- Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press.

- Cavarero, A. (2022). Inclinaciones. Crítica de la rectitud. Barcelona: Fragmenta

- Carenzo, S., & Schmukler, M. (2018). Hacia una ontología política del diseño cartonero: reflexiones etnográficas a partir de la experiencia de la cooperativa Reciclando Sueños (La Matanza, Argentina). INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad, 3(5), 53–80. https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v3.46

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2025-12-19

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Subirós, O. et al. 2025. Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter . INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad. 10, 20 (Dec. 2025), 4–13 p. DOI:https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v10.320.

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Vol. 10 No. 20 (2025): Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter

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EDITORIAL

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