We try to avoid it: corrosion, wrinkles, or any other signs of aging.
Perhaps as architect Juhani Pallasmaa—author of The Eyes of the Skin—stated, the reason we prefer materials that don’t show age like glass or synthetic plastics is because we don’t want to be reminded of our immortality.
But what if we celebrate the pass of time?
Based on the work of the designer Lex Pott (and as part of the graduate studies I’m taking—a Master in Design through New Materials) we did a workshop at ELISAVA to decode and experiment with the way corrosion works.