Week one. Materiality.

I want to start looking at the idea of materiality. Investigating new innovative material used in architecture and design , pushing their boundaries and seeing whether their qualities could cross over and be used within the fashion industry in design. I have been drawing this week using various material and using architecture as a context to draw from, I am happy with the abstractness of the drawings but I feel they are relating my ideas and making my concept visual enough.  I have started looking at materials that are used in architecture that change over time or work with other materials to create something new. I have looked at the word synthesis , which is the process of reaction and two contrasting compounds working together to create something new. I have also looked at Morphogenesis which is the biological process that causes an organism to change its shape. I have looked at things like bio light fixtures - lights that run on bacteria. I am going to continue to explore an work with these materials trying to push their boundaries using their qualities to make something new. I am planning on emailing various companies to see if they can send samples so I can work with these first hand.