Human material turnover has grown so much that there is now an average of one kilogram of concrete for every square metre of earth’s surface. The use, weathering, and decay of buildings have created new minerals and mineral-like materials. Others were formed in mines, through fires in coal seams, or when waste materials decomposed in landfills. Over 200 of the 5,208 officially known minerals are now attributed to human creation. Re-Forming Materials features a cloud of anthro- pogenic minerals hanging in the air, and includes information about the locations of where they were found and the process of their formation.
Participants
RENÉ RISSLAND, ROBERT M. HAZEN, MARTINA DIETRICH, SOFIA PFISTER, JÜRGEN LEHMEIER, AND MATTHIAS MASSARI
NUREMBERG, MUNICH, AND AMBERG, GERMANY; WASHINGTON DC, USA
René Rissland, Born in Leipzig, Germany, 1975. Lives and works in Nuremberg and Munich, Germany.
Robert M. Hazen, Rockville Center, USA, 1948. Lives and works in Washington DC, USA.
Matthias Massari, Nuremberg, Germany, 1966. Lives and works in Nuremberg, Germany.
Martina Dietrich, Amberg, Germany, 1965. Lives and works in Amberg, Germany.
Sofia Pfister, Nuremberg, Germany, 1998. Lives and works in Nuremberg and Munich, Germany.
Jürgen Lehmeier, Dillingen, Germany, 1976. Lives and works in Nuremberg, Germany.
Authorial Collaborators
raum.land architekten und stadtplaner
Technical Collaborators
Tragraum Ingenieure PartmbB; Alfons Schmid Metallbau; Christof Kreutzer Camera Art
Team
René Rissland, Robert M. Hazen, Matthias Massari, Martina Dietrich, Sofia Pfister, Jürgen Lehmeier, Martin Kotissek, Stephan Dietrich, Katrin Wenk, Tobias Günther, Maximilian Wendler, Gerd Frese, Josef Kirchner, Özlem Yüce, Margaret Hindle Hazen
Thanks
terra ignota project
Supporters
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory; George Mason University; Deep Carbon Observatory; Geolitho Foundation nonprofit GmbH; Carsten Slotta Mineralien; Hudson Institute of Mineralogy; Andreas Massanek, Mineralogical Collections and terra mineralia; Winfried Wirth, Maxhütte Steelworks ret. (Technical Director); Walter Pirner (Chemical and Process Engineer); Heidemarie and Wolfgang Sander (Journalist and Author); Harald Zeitler, gh AUER GUSS GmbH (Managing Director); Bernd Wagner, Wagner GmbH & Co. KG Sport Signage (CEO); Vintage Computing Lab Munich
