Material Lab

Material Lab

SATURDAY 7 JANUARY- TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY

This theme explores 50 different materials that individual events will respond to—listed below.

You can choose to respond to any material in your proposal, noting that a material(s) must be nominated.

If you would like to choose a different material not listed, you can select ‘Other’.


  • air

  • aluminium

  • bamboo

  • bone

  • brass

  • carbon

  • chalk

  • clay

  • coal

  • coconut

  • concrete

  • copper

  • cork

  • cotton

  • feathers

  • Fibreglass

  • Funghi

  • glass

  • gold

  • granite

  • grass

  • hair

  • hemp

  • lithium

  • marble

  • nylon

  • ochre

  • palm

  • paper

  • pearl

  • plastic

  • polyethyhene

  • polysterene

  • resin

  • rope

  • rubber

  • sand

  • Seaweed

  • shell

  • silk

  • sliver

  • soil

  • steel

  • stone

  • straw

  • timber

  • water

  • wool

  • iron

  • brick

  • other

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.