Clemens Winkler is a Design Researcher currently employed at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material.” He is fascinated by the vulnerability and resilience of materiality in the context of contemporary ecological, sensorial and social concerns. His practice focuses on entrance points into symbolic operations with objects and spaces through ephemeral material processes on various scales, especially water vapor and dust. By examining clouds in density states and intensities of motion, he sets up a vocabulary through forms of capturing, describing, intensifying, and archiving practices and processes. He, for example, puts things in a box to show what cannot be contained and therefore explores the human obsession for controlling the environment. He has taught internationally as a guest lecturer for several years in “Interaction Design” at Zurich University of the Arts, the “Material Futures” Department at Central Saint Martins College London, and the Ernst Busch Academy of Drama Arts Berlin.