Materials in Perturbation

Why this lens matters

Materials ground a world in ecology, extraction, scarcity, craft and dependence.

Follow-ups

1. Where do they come from?
2. Who controls access to them?
3. What becomes scarce, toxic, sacred or expensive?
4. What substitutions exist, and who uses them?
5. What ecological consequences follow?

Perspective shift

How would a maker or repairer describe this differently from an ordinary user?

Perturbation

Push this further: What changes when the key material becomes scarce, banned or contaminated? How does the civilization adapt without simply becoming our world?

Example

Use this while working on the a disturbance, crisis or change: choose one concrete detail and ask how materials changes what it means.