About Visions By: Knowledge platform with a biannual magazine that addresses the different perspectives on materiality and material cultures from a critical and speculative research focus. It aims at generating awareness through materials beyond their physical properties and at considering materials as a new entitled discipline emerging from a design context. Materials are inevitably linked to the evolution of humanity: they award identity, build heritage, and project futures. We focus on this social impact and perception of materials and the importance of materials in activating and dynamizing cultures and socioeconomic systems. With biannual presentations and participative performances by rising and consolidated designers, VISIONS BY magazine issues are conformed by a curated eclectic mix of articles, photographic essays, interviews and case studies, englobing the different forms of understanding and exercising the material in a design context. In this issue: We drift with Slava, Lera, and Misha through Russia’s Tolyatti in a 1960s Lada. We’re trying to build a car that’s harmless in every way, to all beings, in perpetuity—a guilt-free object. Driven dreams. We look for material evidence of war, both in the Russian trenches and the axis of posting. How is your work/genocide balance going? We talk about Mexico’s electronic scene, reggaeton, cumbiatón, and tribal. Aquí Guadalupe es lo más poderoso del universo. We explore escapism—or why British people will save up their money for a big booze-up in the sunshine in Spain—'Brits abroad’. What does it mean to be a girl online? Body anxiety in the age of A.I., fuelled by 0s and 1s, plurality and power. “I would kill for a glass of wine” is not always a metaphor—and we do not speak the same wind. Welcome to the endgame: ruins, flowers, and vengeance.
