Nancy de Freitas is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studies in Material Thinking, a vehicle for artists, designers and writers to explore their projects and research positions from the vantage point of both the materiality and the poetics of creative research. The aim of the publication is to develop a series of divergent positions, critical approaches and contestations around the term ‘material thinking’, centered as it is on an understanding of invention, design, creative practice and research methodology. Submissions are sought from those who are currently engaged in developing an understanding of new research processes in art and design. How do we evaluate these new or engaged practices when the physical object or the aesthetic experience is no longer the focus of the work but in the condition and quality of the dialogical exchange itself or in the effects and impacts produced in their specific context?
