World of Matter

“World of Matter” is an international project investigating raw materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. In light of the acute problems resulting from human-induced transformation of the earth and its systems, it is tempting to strike a dramatic tone. However, the perspective of crisis also calls upon us to reconsider—at a fundamental level, and in slow, subtle, and unspectacular ways—how we understand and interact with the world of things.