MeAT

About

MeAT research is a design research group based in Cardiff School of Art & Design.

M = MeATaphysics
We are concerned to use design to explore the nature of being in the world, of consciousness and the aesthetic of being. We understand this exploration to be a contemporary form of natural philosophy, respecting the tenets of scientific rationalism while seeking to reclaim some of the rapturous potential of the pre-scientific mind.

e = embodiMeAT
We hold that the soma (in its widest terms) can be most productively understood by designers in terms of a contingent and generative territory that simultaneously transcends and incorporates the organic and inorganic in a poetic interplay.

A = MEa(s)Thetics
Our design exploration resides in the axiological anticipation and analysis of the creative potential of human interventions in the world. We seek, by means of design, to extend, refine and redefine these interventions in a manner that has resonance with the poetic trajectory of our species.

T = TechnoMeAT
We are concerned to use design to explore the potentials of a fluid understanding of technology as both a paradigm and as an instance. Through design we believe we can seek a means of affording and facilitating a creative, sustainable and poetic aesthetic of being through technological means