Relaunch Material-Archiv
Roughly ten years ago, the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, the HSLU Technik & Architektur, the Sitterwerk, and the ZHdK launched the reference work www.materialarchiv.ch.
In mid-August this year, the platform of the Netzwerk Material-Archiv, to which five additional institutions meanwhile now belong—the HSLU Design & Kunst, the ETH Zurich, the ZHAW Winterthur, the HKB Bern, and the Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale—went online in a newly conceived form.
The re-launch project was realized over two years in cooperation with Astrom / Zimmer & Tereszkiewicz and celebrated and presented to the public on September 18, 2020, with the podium discussion “Material denken” (Thinking about Material). A filmic documentation of the event can be accessed here.
One important new aspect of the Material-Archiv database are the augmented options for linking the contents, which thus makes the references to the physical collections and their activities as well as applications more concrete and visible. Moreover, an important new level has been added with the “process” category, which will also be expanded continuously from now on. This will also include, for instance, projects at the Sitterwerk that deal with the topic of production processes and documentation of them, as currently in the exhibitionHOWTO and contributions in the Journal.