Publisher's Synopsis
VISIONS BY PEOPLE ABOUT MATERIAL CULTURES is a knowledge platform based in Barcelona and Mexico City, with a biannual magazine that addresses the different perspectives on materiality and material cultures, from a critical and speculative research focus. It aims at generating awareness through materials beyond their physical properties. We focus on the perception and social impact of materials in activating and dynamizing cultures and socioeconomic systems.
VISIONS BY 7 - Editor's note
We drift with Slava, Lera, and Misha through Russia's Tolyatti in a 1960s Lada. We're trying to build a car that's harmless in every way, to all beings, in perpetuity-a guilt-free object. Driven dreams. We look for material evidence of war, both in the Russian trenches and the axis of posting. How is your work/genocide balance going? We talk about Mexico's electronic scene, reggaeton, cumbiatón, and tribal. Aquì Guadalupe es lo más poderoso del universo. We explore escapism-or why British people will save up their money for a big booze-up in the sunshine in Spain-'Brits abroad'. What does it mean to be a girl online? Body anxiety in the age of A.I., fuelled by 0s and 1s, plurality and power. "I would kill for a glass of wine" is not always a metaphor-and we do not speak the same wind. Welcome to the endgame: ruins, flowers, and vengeance.
