"OnMaterials" is a collaborative platform which focuses on the life cycle of material in exhibition spaces, museums, theaters, film sets and trade fairs, and explores possible strategies for its creative reuse. The project seeks to actively engage artists, designers, craftspeople, art institutions, schools and exhibition spaces to participate and start working together on new strategies towards sustainable cultural practices. By offering the right network in the right moment we want to facilitate the process of materials exchange. The project’s main goals are a) to activate a network of creatives and cultural organizations through a series of activities and workshops, and raise awareness of circular and sustainable artistic production methods, and b) to facilitate waste prevention through the creative reuse and remanufacturing of second life materials

OnMaterials is collecting and redistributing unneeded materials for artistic creation, designing and educational purposes. 

OnMaterials is a platform/warehouse where a wide range of unneeded/leftovers materials (wood, metals, plastic, foam, textile, paints, plexiglass, decorative objects) collected from different sources such as theatre productions, film sets, museums, galleries, exhibitions and trade fair installations, is offered to a community of artists, designers, craftspeople, students and cultural practitioners, to produce new works, objects and designs or for educational purposes.

OnMaterials will start evolving itself as a pop-up store hosted at LUDD makerspace in Athens during three weekends throughout the project's timeline. The pop-up store will be a source of materials and inspiration where cultural/creative practitioners will have the opportunity to experiment on their individual or collective artistic practices. Furthermore, we won't only invite individuals or art institutions to discover the materials but also provide them with a number of themed and educational workshops and talks (The future of materials in a circular economy, Recycling in design etc) all hosted in different maker-spaces or studio artists' in Athens. The
project will close with an exhibition presenting artists who combine their aesthetic sensibilities with sustainable approaches to the production, dissemination and display of their artworks.