Rethinking Materiality: Natural resources and human resourcefulness Lecture by Anupama Kundoo Gin D. Wong Auditorium USC School of Architecture As part of Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design Hosted by Craft Contemporary and USC School of Architecture Our built environment is the physical stage on which all human stories are lived out. This physical stage…

Material Acts: A Symposium brings together artists, designers, and architects experimenting with material processes and systems. Understanding materials as process-based events with human actors, rather than artifacts found in stasis, this symposium on new materials explores the rich milieu of ideas that accompany their making, including practices in bioregional design, waste economies, and living systems, alongside…

Following a brief tour of the exhibition Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), participants will walk to Craft Contemporary to create and decorate their own ceramic sculptural cup inspired by Suarez Frimkess’s work. No previous ceramics experience necessary. Co-presented with LACMA.   

Artist and alchemist Maru García leads a presentation about her site-specific installation composed of a live SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast). García will also demonstrate how living cultures are sustained, grown, and how bacterial cellulose is harvested.