Partners
Perspective, Kyoto
www.prspectiv.co
MA Material Futures CSM
www.materialfutures.com
Guest speakers
Professor Atsuro Morita
Prof. Atsuro Morita is a social anthropologist in Science and Technology Studies at The University of Osaka. His research focuses on climate change and urban everyday life, working with grassroots movements in Japan. He examines how everyday practices, energy, material flows, and infrastructures in the Yodogawa Watershed cut across Osaka and Kyoto. Prof. Atsuro Morita spoke beautifully about how we consider the infrastructures we are part of, and the remaking of our world and bodies. He explored the anthropological backgrounds of ruptures in landscapes, what they have brought about and how their significance sits in the present. He also reflected on irrelevance, apprenticeship with more-than-human others, and experimentation in making practices.
Theun Karelse
Theun Karelse is an artist based in the Netherlands an is an active member of FoAM, part of the Embassy of the Earth, a contributor to the Future of the Delta team at the Embassy of the North Sea, and Speaker for the Living at ZOÖP CCU and ZOÖP Amstelpark. Theun shared his practice, reflecting on how he is part of the community of life as a whole, building communities by weaving together people, species, places, practices, and experimental formats. It’s not about doing work alone but about growing collectively. Theun’s practice is embodied, lived, experimental, inquisitive, activating, and open. It moves constantly in place: being in place, being with species, and testing how we might look through different lenses.
Repairing the Ruptures is a collaboration between Kyoto-based PERSPECTIVE and the UAL/CSM Masters Material Futures and Regenerative Design. Through this open call, we formed a research team to explore and propose new ways of mending, reimagining, and transforming worlds from a regenerative ethos. Inspired by practices of worlding (Haraway), we aim to cultivate speculative and situated ways of making-with, not only repairing what is broken, but generating new possibilities for collective futures where place and species thrive.
The briefing asks for responses that share new ways of listening, tracing, and activating: unpacking living systems and their invisible, subtle languages; repairing social and cultural practices that activate landscapes of care through community relationships. These project approaches are open entry points but require local connection and hybrid translations, built on situated interventions.
Repairing the Ruptures is about mending and proposing, advancing and regenerating, cultivating attentiveness, rituals, and the weaving of whole systems.
Participants conduct site visits to observe and "listen" to the landscape. Through guided fieldwork, they identify local ruptures, disruptions, tensions, or gaps in the environment or social fabric. A key method is "playful listening": asking locals about the games they played in childhood or their sensorial memories of the place. These conversations reveal deep, often unnoticed relationships with local materials and ecologies.
Through mapping exercises and interviews, participants explore how ruptures and materials connect to wider systems and stories: histories of extraction or cultivation, struggles over land use, informal infrastructures, or cultural memories. Tracing Materials that Mediate the Ruptures like water, soil, and vegetation are approached as media that connect multiple dimensions of the rupture: political, ecological, infrastructural, spiritual.
The program culminates in a collective reflection where participants share the traces they leave behind. What have they learned from materials? From each other? What new questions have emerged?
Participants are asked to articulate how their individual responses contribute to a wider regenerative horizon, not by "solving" ruptures but by tending to them.
YARD WORK: A Situated Intervention in Place, Plant, and Craft
Lesley Roberts
Yard Work is a place-based, small-scale workshop combining craft, ecological awareness, and community building.
Spectacles of the Mundane
Gayle FormanJames Harle
Sammy Johnson
Long Doan
Florence de Keijzer
Yusra Tanveer
A living archive of Hackney Wick
Rethinking Rupture Across Scales
Ines Quinones Fabregas
Sarah Muir-Smith
Laurain Park
An investigation of rupture as a multi-scalar relational disturbance across material, ecological, and perceptual systems.
Mapping Relationships Across Scales in Sagami Bay Bioregion
Quoï Alexander
Tuukka Toivonen
A field-based design inquiry into how relationships fracture across scales, and how design can act within these gaps.
Plaide Boglaich
Shannon Daly
Tartan for nature
What Grows Again
Antoine Léger
Locally grown coppiced wood to inform contemporary design and making
CANALSCOPE; Windows into Water
Ane Garcia Rodriguez
Betty Barker
Fraser Pearston
Nikhita Ramdas
Canalscope reimagines Camley Street Natural Park in King’s Cross, London, as a site where urban ecology surfaces through deep observation, play and everyday encounters with the Regent’s Canal.
UNBOXING, Embracing a connected world
Simone Suss
Charlie Whinney
How can we design in a way that reflects our deep connection to nature, away from isolated boxes, to a world that enhances living systems? Regenerative interior design repairs the rupture by integrating us back into living systems.