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Making and Materiality – TACK Exhibition

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Tom Avermaete Janina Gosseye

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The act of making a drawing, a scale model, a piece of furniture, a book or a building can result in the acquisition of tacit knowledge. This knowledge can be about materials and their capacities, as is the case in ‘HERMIA’. It can be knowledge about particular sites and spaces of production, as is shown in ‘Innerer Garten project, Zürich Leutschenbach’, ‘Tannour’ and ‘Lava Brick’; or it can be knowledge about craft, skill and (new) modes of making, as is demonstrated in ‘Clay 3D Print of Urmein’, ‘The Yield of the Land’ and ‘Four Square Levels’.

Materials are also carriers of tacit knowledge. Their physical qualities, along with their dents, tears and scratches, can silently speak about their provenance, material capacities, past lives and previous usages, and can stimulate designers’ imaginations, shaping (or sometimes even dictating) new realities and novel possibilities, as is shown by ‘Carpenter Chair’, ‘Glassplitter/Broken Glass’ and ‘The B-Sides. Tupaia, Kybernetes & Lara Croft’.