VISIONS BY is a biannual magazine from the 'knowledge platform' of the same name which aims to address the different perspectives on materiality and material cultures from a soft academic, design-centred perspective. It's constantly evolving, shape-shifting affair in which, according to the publisher 'there is no specific theme per issue, no specific profile, no specific reader. Our contributors are selected in order to help us understand the cultural implications of materials and their infinite meanings. VISIONS BY people, about Material Cultures.'
Publishers description for issue 5:
'We design for life, death and posterity, all together - while understanding who and/or what is permissible to kill or let die. We try to understand why water is a false dragon and how it gives and takes life. We are encouraged to do some push-ups. We rearrange things made of more things, we steal them and we question their economic value, trying to make sense of it in the process. We dance Kumbia and listen to the earth with the people who work under and on it.'