Adobeisnotsoftware, After Architecture, Anupama Kundoo, Gramazio Kohler, Maru Garcia, Post Rock, SOFT Matter, Sutherlin Santo, Yogiaman TracyFeeding and Re-fusing
Adobeisnotsoftware, After Architecture, Anupama Kundoo, Gramazio Kohler, Maru Garcia, Post Rock, SOFT Matter, Sutherlin Santo, Yogiaman Tracy
March 24-April 13, 2025
Sprague Gallery
Anupama Kundoo, Volontariat House for Homeless Children, 2008-2010. Image courtesy of Anupama Kundoo. Photo by Andres Herzog.
Feeding and Re-fusing begins with a reframing of materials as processes. Materials are typically described as raw resources, fixed products, or inert objects to be sourced on a shelf in the store—a function of commodity more than of making. Yet, such understandings of materials belie the complex logistical, economic, ecological, and technological actions that transform matter into the material substrate for our lives. The exhibition presents select experiments by contemporary designers, architects and artists who approach materials as operations, processes, and systems, rather than a raw resource or finished product. From SCOBY skins to slumbering mycelia, bioregional materials to 3d printed bio gels, designers are making not only new materials but building new systems in response to climate precarity. The exhibition’s process-based approach to materials centers human actors and systems in the event of the transformation of material, reminding us that materials are not “natural.” The perspectives presented in Feeding and Re-fusing lean away from the framing of "nature" as a romantic origin or as authority and instead explore how a multitude of natures, alongside cultural values, enter into material processes and practices, showcasing how contemporary design and architecture practices mobilize, confound, and generate natures through the making of material.
Feeding and Re-fusing opens on March 24 and continues through April 13, 2025. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with additional hours during events on evenings and weekends. The exhibition is open to the public.
The exhibition is curated by Kate Yeh Chiu and Assistant Professor of Architecture Jia Yi Gu, the HMC Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts.