Yoonha Kim – författare

What happens when we begin treating multi-stable, ambivalent and adaptive behaviors of active matter as a formative principle? The contributions of this volume investigate the potential of the processual and untamable — ranging from microbial co-designing, morphogenetic experimentation and atmospheric creation to plasticity and liveliness in architecture, history of art and scientific concepts. Walking the line between analog and digital forms, the 19 perspectives from the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity" not only cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries, but also aim at installing a new material paradigm between the epistemic cultures of sciences, humanities and design. Investigating a new culture of the material Interdisciplinary views on active structures, adaptive materials and sustainability

What did Koreans wear before t-shirts and jeans and what futures might still be woven into those garments? Once an everyday attire shaped by climate and agrarian life, hanboks have been pushed to the margins of museums and fashion shows. Yet grassroots movements and experimental practices are reviving the hanbok as a site of resistance.At the heart of Worlding Hanbok is Lee Ki-Yeon, an activist, who during South Korea’s 1980s dictatorship initiated a movement of wearing earth-toned, oversized hanboks as a symbol of solidarity and renewal. These hanboks were not only structurally ecological – they were crafted to enable generous sharing of garments, embodying values of energetic circulation, material activity, and collaborative inhabitation. Through embodied ethnography and fieldwork across hanbok workshops, a weaving facility, online hanbok communities, and a textile lab in Potsdam, anthropologist Yoonha Kim shows how the making and wearing of hanboks enact alternative ways of knowing, being, and relating.