#2 CRAFTING DATA
RESEARCH FILM BY LUKAS WEGWERTH, GIULIA BRUNO IN COLLABORATION WITH GIUSEPPE IELASI
Crafting data is a multi-perspective approach to a range of professions for which earth and its properties are central to their daily activity. The focus of observation are the widely invisible systems, structures and methods associated with the material.
We examine the material earth, the stakeholders who are working with the material and their interests in it. We look at ways these professionals are approaching earth, which manual, mechanical or intellectual gestures they perform towards it and for which reasons they are moving and processing it into information, into bricks or into objects.
Conceiving our practice as an ongoing work in progress, digging deeper and deeper, we propose a continuous discovery of an omnipresent yet mostly neglected material and its relation to geological history, economy, design, crafts, tradition, experiment, building, ecological destruction, sustainability and circularity.
Instead of presenting fixed knowledge, but resembling bricks of information condensed in different semantic layers of the material, generates a diverse understanding of its complexity and meaning.