Titled Charred Wood, the collaborative project engages students, faculty, designers, artists, Indigenous knowledge keepers and scientists from across the province.
A new project from Material Matters research hub at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) explores charred wood to provide insight and understanding into the increasingly devastating impacts of wildfire.
Titled Charred Wood, the project produced significant concrete outcomes, including a sustainable, super-black ink pigmented with refined biochar. But Charred Wood is about more than investigating material applications for BC's flame-scorched forests.
"Really, this project is about relations," says Material Matters cofounder and ECU faculty member Hélène Day Fraser.
"It's about how to build relations with scientists, government, Indigenous communities and one another. We're asking, where do our materials come from? How do we take responsibility for them? And how can the work we do as designers change relations through the sharing of perspectives?"
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