We explore weapons, lots of them, through different forms, relationships, networks and infrastructures. We try to understand how media works and what people we are following. How is the narrative built? What do you stand for? Are we part of a community? We take a closer look at stones, the symbiotic encounters of minerals and life, objects (possession), things (property) and how they (and we) become everyday viruses. We also try to understand the cloud and its complexity.
VISIONS BY Issue No. 4 features an evolution from its previous format and structure, just as Issue No. 4 and upcoming and future issues will. They are meant to mutate, seeking the best way to explore their self-contained content. Again, there is no specific theme per issue, no specific profile, no specific reader. Our contributors are selected in order to help us understand the cultural implications of materials and their infinite meanings. VISIONS BY people, about Material Cultures.
VISIONS BY Issue No. 4 – Contents
VIRAL WARFARE: THE ROLE OF TIKTOK IN GLOBAL GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICTS
David Varhegyi
DREAMING JEWELS. NOTES ON THE SYMBIOTIC ENCOUNTERS OF MINERALS AND LIFE
Laura Tripaldi
THE VIRUS OF THINGS
Jerome Llorente
THE STUPIDITY OF PROPERTY, POSSESSION AND FIRST AND FOREMOST HUMANS
Masa Stanic
ADVERSARIAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Anna Engelhardt
BEN DITTO.MP3
Ben Ditto, Pau Garcia
CLOUDPLEXITY, INTERNET REPRESENTATIONS DRAWN FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT DATABASE
Mario Santamaria
About VISIONS BY: People about Material Cultures.
VISIONS BY is a knowledge platform with an annual magazine that addresses the different perspectives on materiality and material cultures from a critical and speculative research focus. It aims at generating awareness through materials beyond their physical properties and at considering materials as a new entitled discipline emerging from a design context.
Materials are inevitably linked to the evolution of humanity: they award identity, build heritage, and project futures. We focus on this social impact and perception of materials and the importance of materials in activating and dynamizing cultures and socioeconomic systems.
With annual presentations and participative performances by rising and consolidated designers, Visions By magazine issues are conformed by a curated eclectic mix of articles, photographic essays, interviews and case studies, englobing the different forms of understanding and exercising the material in a design context.
Creative Direction: Saúl Baeza
Editors-in-chief: Saúl Baeza, Laura Clèries
Publisher: Onomatopee
Promoter: Elisava Research
Designer: Oficina de disseny (Diego Bustamante, Ariadna Serrahima)
Published in 2023
Selfcover
Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 80
ISBN: 978-90-833621-6-8
