The fact, that I live in Wendorf doesn’t mean that I can’t be reached. I live in Central Europe. I have a satellite Internet, a Lada Niva four-wheel drive, and a mobile phone, like everyone else in the Global Village
Ton Matton studied urban planning at TU Delft (1991) and initially founded the office Schie 2.0 in Rotterdam, focusing on urban and environmental design with the aim of implementing self-sufficient architectural moments. He was part of the Dutch design movement of the 1990s, which worked on the “Amnesty for the Built Reality” and engaged experimentally with the issues of planning and spatial planning. His most impactful projects are those in which Matton drastically changed the perception of a particular situation through different representations, effectively creating a new design.
An old DDR prefabricated school serves as the base for MattonOffice indie urbanist. Between Hamburg and Berlin, Ton Matton maintains a large studio in a small village structure. With a hyper-modern lifestyle balancing urban attitudes and a wood-fired heating system, Ton Matton seeks connections between traditional rural life and contemporary lifestyle.
“The fact that I live in Wendorf doesn’t mean that I can’t be reached. I live in Central Europe. I have satellite Internet, a Lada Niva four-wheel drive, and a mobile phone, like everyone else in the Global Village.” (A10 Magazine, Wonderland 2006).
Here, Ton Matton pursues the small utopias and disruptive moments of everyday life. MattonOffice views nature as an object for the aesthetic mediation of societal crises.
Ton Matton’s work spans object design, social design, ecological urban planning, and artistic activism. Currently, he is a fellow at the DFG College Imaginaries of Force, where he researches wind turbines and energy landscapes. Additionally, he is preparing the Potemkin Art Academy in Schwerin, a performative installation based on improvisation.
Publications:
- Slow Urban Planning. Tribsees Zukunft machen, Berlin 2023.
- @the countryside Wendorf Academy Summerschool 22, Wendorf 2022.
- Zweifel. Performative Stadtplanung in 13 Vorträgen, Berlin 2019.
- Dorf machen. Improvisationen zur sozialen Wiederbelebung (Ed.), Berlin 2017.
- Not Welcome. Exhibition, co-edited with Michael Obrist and Antoine Turillon, Linz 2016.
- Hacking Habitat (Ed.), Munich 2015.
interventa Hallstatt 2024: Tom Matton is participant in the panel discussion on the subject of Identität, as well as the discussion on the topic of Raumproduktion and the moderated talk on the subject of Mobilitätswende und zukünftige Spekulationen.
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