Description: Material is a Medium. It communicates ideas, beliefs, approaches: compels us to think, feel and act in certain ways; enables and enhances functionality and utility. Materials Experience emphasises this role of materials as being simultaneously technical and experiential. Materials Experience Lab | Directed by Prof. Elvin Karana at Delft University of Technology and Prof. Valentina
Materials Experience Lab | Directed by Prof. Elvin Karana at Delft University of Technology and Prof. Valentina Rognoli at Politecnico di Milano.
Materials Experience Lab is a cross country research group bringing together researchers/practitioners who introduces unique ways of understanding and designing (with) materials to radically change and enhance the relationship people have with materials and artefacts. The Lab is committed to opening up new territories for material and product design and disseminate research findings through exhibitions, scientific publications, public debates, etc., with the aim of federating and supporting the research com
The main research activities of the Lab are coordinated by Elvin Karana and Valentina Rognoli. The core team consists of researchers/practitioners who actively work on a specific project under the Lab.