Nothing is static.
The world
is filled with movement having
different rhythms and intensities.
Things move, bodies move, materials move.
Movement opens up possibilities
and potentialities.
It is measurement that stifles
movement ^[1]

Materials are not immutable, passive, or lifeless until
the moment we interact with them.
They participate
in our undertakings.
They live,
speak,
gesture,
and call to us.

We tend to think about materials from a
rational or functional viewpoint
When looking at the basic properties of fabric, there are
certain features
we consider
breathability, weight, drape, durability, softness, construction and whether
it is water-repellent.^[2]
But affordances can extend beyond that.^[3]

Our ideas about the world are shaped by deeply rooted cultural dichotomies
animate vs inanimate,
active vs passive,
self vs other,
human vs thing.

These binaries lead us,
often unconsciously,
to think of
ourselves as animate agents
who act on lifeless materials.
This conception then affects how we
see materials, how we engage with them,
and what
we create with them.

What if the human premise,
of only humans having
agency, is flawed?

What if
materials influence us
as much as we influence them?
How might we experience materials differently
if we acknowledge them as joint participants in our interactions with them?

What would happen if we empower materials,
And see them not as
compliant objects, but as events?

How might a shift in perspective on materiality
change we read and interoret materials?

What if agency was relational?
Collectively distributed and
more than human?
What tools do we need to expand and think
through relations or
think about relations as distributed?

We could craft
vibrant social-ecological environments
where humans and nonhumans
are always in relation.

Think about the potential

The problem is that we think
that humans alone
are rational beings
and therefore we can think and
exercise intentional agency

Assigning anthropomorphic characteristics to things
just sounds weird
The locus for this complex relational notion
is not about particles,
atoms
or neutrons
Life is shaped by the interactions, no, the intra-acting
between them. ^[4]

Nothing acts alone.