Description du cours :
Material Memory, invites students to explore how different materials—wood, metal, clay, book making, glass and jewellery—carry traces of history. These traces might be personal (for example, family memories), cultural (craft traditions, colonial histories), geological (rocks, fossils, pigment), or technological (archives, digital files). The class draws upon ideas like material agency (that materials themselves have power, or affect us), ecological and post humanist perspectives (seeing humans as part of nature rather than above it), craft as resistance (for example preserving indigenous or decolonial traditions), sustainability and the life cycle of materials (how materials are created, used, discarded, conserved), and digital vs analogue memory (how memory is stored, lost, transformed in digital and physical forms). Students will make work that reflects critically on what it means for a material to remember, to forget, to encode meaning, or to bear witness.
• During semester, we will read and analyse texts, build a material glossary by atelier and create a personal work in response to the theme
• For the end of the year, you will create a Material Glossary, for future project reference and cross-material thinking