INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DESIGN Volume 13 Issue 2 Alive. Active. Adaptive

The emergence of new materials as well as new approaches to designing with materials offer a broad spectrum of opportunities for achieving new material experiences in design. However, as materials become alive, active, and adaptive, and acquire new agency and interactional possibilities, how do or should designers work with them? This Special Issue offers a review of how the landscape of design is broadening with the emergence of alive, active, and adaptive materials, whether biological, chemical, or algorithmic. How do we understand and design with such materials, which have unique qualities, temporalities, and relationships with human and non-human entities? This question calls not only for different skill sets but also for a different way of understanding and mobilizing materials in design.

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Suggested Citation (special issue): Karana, E., Nimkulrat, N., Giaccardi, E., Niedderer, K. & Fan, J.N. (eds.) (2019). Alive. Active. Adaptive: Experiential knowledge and emerging materials. International Journal of Design, 13(2).

Suggested Citation (editorial article): Karana, E., Nimkulrat, N., Giaccardi, E., Niedderer, K. & Fan, J.N. (2019). Alive. Active. Adaptive: Experiential knowledge and emerging materials. International Journal of Design, 13(2), 1-5.