Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter II

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https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v11.345

Abstract

This issue, a continuation of issue nº 20, proposes rethinking the understanding of matter as a relational, emergent, and becoming reality, inscribed within material-discursive phenomena in which humans, more-than-humans, techniques, territories, economies, memories, and institutions intra-act and co-constitute one another.

The eight articles included address situated and collaborative practices that make it possible to recognize how material relations participate in the co-production of the world and activate ecological, social, and political responsibilities. From this perspective, the issue advances a design ethics aimed at questioning extractive logics and opening possibilities for more situated, interdependent, and regenerative practices. 

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Author Biographies

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

Historiador del arte, doctor en Estudios Culturales y profesor de Iconología en BAU Centro Universitario de Artes y Diseño de Barcelona. Ha desarrollado numerosos proyectos relacionados con las políticas de la imagen, en formato expositivo, audiovisual o editorial. Los más recientes son: 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; edición italiana, 2025).

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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 emergencies visible.

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). 

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

Artist, researcher, and lecturer in the Design and Fine Arts degrees at  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. 

References

-Gell, A. (1998). Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Clarendon

-Tamen, M (2001). Friends of Interpretable Objects. Harvard University Press

-Franke, A. (ed.) (2010). Animism. Sternberg Press.

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2025-06-30

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Marzo , J.L. et al. 2025. Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter II. INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad. 11, 21 (Jun. 2025), 4–11 p. DOI:https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v11.345.

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Vol. 11 No. 21 (2026): Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter II

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EDITORIAL

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