Rethinking our Relationship to Materials
Looking at the theames of Anxious Times, Polychronic Objects, An Aerial View of Time, Crumpling as a Way of Making, Making and Consuming Time and Critical Craft - to reconsider our co-making of objects with the world around us.
Workshops & Talks
A selection of workshops & talks delivered on the themes of Listening to Materials, Material Conversations, Textile Narratives, Audio Scopes for the Infra-ordinary, Crowd scourced Material Narratives and Conversations with Materials.
Current Writing
The Spoon
The Spoon (77,000 words) – How dangerous do you think a stainless-steel teaspoon can be?
The Spoon is a literary eco novel, with an eerie object-oriented voice that narrates the dangerous materials we use in our kitchens. It deals with themes of toxicity and our addiction to damaging values both personal and cultural. It asks how long we can remain nostalgic for ways of living that are poisoning us, and points to how we might live differently with the objects in our homes.
About & Contact
Dr Jane Norris is a professor of design and digital culture. She was previously Head of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology at Richmond University, the American University in London, and guest lectured on the Planet MA, Kolding University Denmark.
She now is focusing on writing about materials.
Ealing, London UK.
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