FABRICS & MATERIALITY

Exploration and application of materials through the lens of history

1 Sustainability of Materiality

Materiality is directed toward the future, whereas matter moves from the "past to present" (Herrington, 2017).

The possibility of the future development of materiality is vital within the dynamic character of the landscape. Materiality is the tangible matter with which people interact long after a design project has been done. Materials are touched, walked on, and sat on, and predicting the specific experiences that arise from these interactions is typically a significant goal for designers (Herrington, 2017). Some landscape architects work on projects that only consider the current effect and choose materials that are beautiful but not durable, which get worse and worse as the years pass by. I suppose that we should study dynamic systems that span the time from now until even the time when we no longer exist in this world.

The montage is to convey the information that the materials will continue to change long after the design is completed, even beyond the lifespan of a person. They will constantly interact with humans in different contact forms.