Saturday November 23, 10AM — 4PM
Material Acts: A Symposium
Adobeisnotsoftware Founder, Ben Loescher, will be speaking at Material Acts: A Symposium, this Saturday November 23 at USC School of Architecture. The event brings together artists, designers, and architects experimenting with material processes and systems. Understanding materials as process-based events with human actors, rather than artifacts found in stasis, this symposium on new materials explores the rich milieu of ideas that accompany their making, including practices in bioregional design, waste economies, and living systems, alongside perspectives of care, constraint, and regeneration.
Along with Ben, other contributors include Anupama Kundoo, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Matthias Kohler, and Meredith Miller, who will present their research and thinking against the backdrop of accelerating environmental degradation, framing materials as a chain of operations, rather than fixed objects.
Please note: USC Campus requires guest registration for all visitors. RSVP is required. Upon RSVP, guests will receive parking and campus access code one week before the event. Please register via the link here.
Saturday November 23
10:00am-4:00pm
USC School of Architecture
Verle Annis Gallery & Harris Courtyard
The symposium is organized by Jia Gu and Kate Yeh Chiu as part of Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design, and is hosted by Craft Contemporary and USC Architecture as part of the regional initiative Getty PST ART: Art and Science Collide.
