While the idea of material-driven processes is not new and the publication list of theories and models is not short, this book on material explorations in design aims to jump-start your curiosities and desire to push material boundaries through fundamental research. Considerations required in this process of exploring materials design – those that will provide some direction in the research process – demand both confidence and stamina, especially in relation to persistent questions of usefulness, as one conceptualize your own approach or open up fresh thinking about alternative approaches. The number of approaches to material research presented in this book is not to be understood as a complete inventory; in fact the list could probably be longer. Methods are abundant, and these suggestions simply demonstrate the wide field of possibility for divergent thinking in materials research for new aesthetics – both functionally and expressively and in combination.