MDW 26 |Tactile Dialogues: Fragments of Matter Exhibition

TACTILE DIALOGUES: FRAGMENTS OF MATTER

A fragment can be a physical piece of an object, a trace of something left behind, a half-remembered memory, or a glimpse through a half-closed door. Sometimes detached or incomplete. Sometimes evolving.

Tactile Dialogues: Fragments of Matter invites audiences to experience fragmentation as both material and concept. A space where new forms, partial views, and traces of thought become the starting point for dialogue, curiosity, and reflection.

Following on from the warm reception of Tactile Dialogues 2025, this year’s iteration, presented by Made by Morgen and curated by Ryan Fernandes invites audiences to engage with fragments as frameworks for exchange. Crafted objects, emerging material systems, ceramics, glass and tactile materials become conduits for dialogue between matter, maker and participant.

We explore the material intelligence that only comes from a maker’s hand: shaping with precision, yet allowing space for play, variation and evolution.

Fragmentation here is not absence, but possibility. An invitation to consider process, temporality and transformation.

Visitors move through a constellation of tactile encounters: surfaces that freeze time in liquid-form patterning, timber forms that offer calm, ceramic fragments that invite curiosity, glass that captures and refracts light, and edible elements that dissolve or transform with touch.

The installation encourages mindful, embodied engagement, asking audiences to listen, feel and observe. Through a choreography of touch, trace and transformation, Tactile Dialogues: Fragments of Matter investigates material temporality and proposes design as a living, unfinished practice.

During the program (Sat 16th May ), we will also host a panel with design journalist Aleesha Callahan on 'About Futures' where we dive into the exhibition, the makers and the role these materials may play in circular design and construction, alongside the broader cultural impact of collectible design. Get your tickets to this event.

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