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The Center for Material Studies is a research environment studying and developing material phenomena and performances across architecture and design scales.

Our aim is to develop knowledge, methods and demonstrations that impact the ability for architecture and design disciplines to develop aesthetic and sustainable solutions which influence society generally and humans directly through perceived experiences. Our strategy is to study materials in synergetic investigation trajectories of material making, material programming and material perception. 

The Center is structured for collaborative efforts with industry and academic partners, enabling unique cross-disciplinary and cross-sector research processes searching new ideas, knowledge and methods that can address complex unique and systemic problems faced by the individual and the society. 

Our ambition 
is to develop excellent research through material studies that contribute to sustainable architecture and design. 

Our aim
is to impact the ability for society to develop aesthetic and sustainable solutions that impact humans directly through perceived experiences. 

Our purpose 
is to develop knowledge, methods and demonstrations of materials that directly increase life quality and advance sustainability.

Our mission
is to study, to understand, and to demonstrate how materials directly impact humans, the planet and our climate through experimental and analytical research in architecture and design. Research is conducted across design scales with the aim to impact across domains.  

Our strategy
is to study materials in the synergetic investigation trajectories of material making, material programming and material perception. What we do is directly experienced by other humans.

Our focus
is placed on the making, programing, and perception of materials.