Studio for Matter and Meaning

In this session, we will rework a book and selected texts from the past ten years by transforming them into a small house. Participants will co-build a temporary structure shaped by textual fragments. Rather than turning pages, participants construct rooms, open passages, and navigate ideas as they take form in space. Reading becomes a spatial and collective practice, emerging through movement, construction, and exchange. The structure will remain in place after the session, continuing to function as a shared environment for reflection, interaction, and ongoing reinterpretation.

About

Studio for matter and meaning is a collective exploring how material processes and social meaning emerge together. Inspired by Karen Barad’s concept of agential realism, the studio understands design not as the creation of isolated objects but as participation in relational processes that shape how worlds/phenomena come into being.

Through experimental formats, material practices, and participatory interventions, the studio investigates how design can make relations visible and create spaces for collective reflection and engagement. Its work often operates between design, research, and public discourse, experimenting with formats that translate complex ideas into tangible

and shareable experiences. Without fancy academic words: we materialize what otherwise is just discursiv because we think that things should matter.