VISIONS BY PEOPLE ABOUT MATERIAL CULTURES

VISIONS BY PEOPLE ABOUT MATERIAL CULTURES is a knowledge platform based in Barcelona and Mexico City,with a biannual magazine that addresses the different perspectives on materiality and material cultures, from acritical and speculative research focus. It aims at generating awareness through materials beyond their physicalproperties. We focus on the perception and social impact of materials in activating and dynamizing cultures andsocioeconomic systems.VISIONS BY 7 — Editor’s noteWe drift with Slava, Lera, and Misha through Russia’s Tolyatti in a 1960s Lada. We’re trying to build a car that’sharmless in every way, to all beings, in perpetuity—a guilt-free object. Driven dreams. We look for material evidenceof war, both in the Russian trenches and the axis of posting. How is your work/genocide balance going? We talkabout Mexico’s electronic scene, reggaeton, cumbiatón, and tribal. Aquí Guadalupe es lo más poderoso deluniverso. We explore escapism—or why British people will save up their money for a big booze-up in the sunshine inSpain—''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.