Resumen de That's the stuff
Several privately run material repositories and databases aimed at artists and architects have emerged in the past few years. Materia, based in the Netherlands, has a searchable online database of innovative and unusual materials. Material Connexion has collections in New York and elsewhere. But Martin Conreen, Zoe Laughlin and Mark Miodownik had a different ambition: to build a collection that speaks of the changing relationship between humans and the things they make and use. "Materials are like characters in a book. They tell the story of civilization," says Miodownik. Every time people find a new way of rearranging atoms, it changes what people can do: sometimes in a small way, sometimes by defining an age in bronze, steel or silicon. Here, Fisher discusses how the diversity of the materials people create says a lot about what moves people as humans.
