Themed Events: Making Place: a speculative workshop – Time and date to be defined
This forms part of the philosophical themed Research and Knowledge Exchange events to foster and grow our research culture and environment and to identify research strands which are key to our school ethos and future development.
This session is founded on the collaborative interdependence of place and person: while people inevitably shape place, our making practices are informed and shaped by the place we reside in. This event will bring together members of the School of Art and Media who are interested in the ‘Co-becoming’ (Bawaka et al) of person and place. We will take people outside of the institution explore these ideas fresh context. The purpose of this initial workshop would be quite speculative: a gathering of people with interests in place making to discuss the role it plays in their work. We hope that from these initial conversations we will be able to develop a larger research project and/or Research Excellence Group looking at these ideas.
We have identified this theme as a key area that many members of staff and students within the school are investigating in their work. As well as supporting the development of research projects, this session will be an opportunity for participants to think about how place is used in their knowledge exchange activities. The session is open to students as well as staff.
The workshop will commence with a series of short talks/provocations on place to get participants engaging with the subject area, thinking about how it is sensed, the challenges in defining it, and how we interact with it. Participants will then be set activities to provoke explorations of place and encouraged to create responses to their discoveries. The workshop will finish with a plenary and drinks reception where participants will discuss their reflections on the exercise and whether any further activities could be developed in the future.
For more information contact Jo Pilcher – Senior Lecturer 3D Design & Craft and Illustration School of Art and Media
Image: Ëpha Roe, Major Oak, Sherwood Forest, Nottingham, from the series Arboreal Encounters as part of the practice-based PhD project ‘Photosymbiosis: Towards a Photographic Method of Collaboration with England’s Heritage Oak Tree’s’, 2021. 21 x 29.7cm print on 29.7 x 42cm paper. Oak leaf tannin-toned cyanotype on Langton watercolour paper.