04. Future of Material Culture
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Material culture is the aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society.
Our material culture has meanings that extend far beyond mere facts, utility, and
My way to identify design language is basically started by searching for an answer to release my self from creative block. That’s when I realised, creativity does affected by how I define my identity, and clearly define what I care about and what I want in to do with my practice.
It was clearly said above that I see myself as still operating in the spirit of the time, I was just following what is happening out there rather than focusing on myself I am interested in particular topics. But, self-reflecting is not enough to define our identity. Oftentimes, in creative practices, we work better with probes. Therefore, in search of my design language, I am looking to external, but now, I am not looking at just the visual preferences of the designers or works that I like or find inspiring. Rather, I am trying to understand their manifesto, their design language, their ideas, and their approach to doing their practices.
This is where I came across 2 renowned designers I felt whose practices were relevant to what I am trying to achieve conceptually and philosophically; Johanna Selemann and Julia Lohmann. Though I might not yet explain what are my practices at the moment, this journey of design language basically is a journey to find out what kind of practice I want to claim of myself.
Things that attracted me to Johanna Selemann and Juliah Lohmann are the way they incorporate materiality, the sciences, and the systematic around those things in relationship with the human. Nevertheless
Figure 1: The draft of my design language (Wigy, 2025)