Foreword to Design Materials and Making for Social Change
Writing in 1944 the weaver Anni Albers observed, “Life today is very bewildering. We have no picture of it which is all-inclusive”. Part of the challenge, Albers determined, lay in the fact that “we have to make a choice between concepts of great diversity. And as a common ground is wanting, we are baffled by them.” She went on to link mental health with daily creative outlets before establishing the crucial role direct work with materials can provide. It is our contemporary versions of Albers bewildering challenges that the contributors to Design Materials and Making for Social Change astutely tackle...