Particulate Matters
Thursday, April 18th, 5pm @ UVA: Campbell Hall 153
The 2024 Howland Symposium engages with the scale of the particulate—from dust, smoke, sand, gravel, or similarly mobile units of matter—and asks what new publics, and public obligations become legible when the design fields consider the material world through this lens. In a series of situated engagements with a variety of particulate matter, the symposium panelists will share recent research on the political, environmental, and human implications of mobile matter, and explore with us the ways in which the design fields might more deeply engage with this often-unruly category of materials.