Event overview
How can we work together in disagreement, systemic dislocation, or with commonalities that don’t yet exist?
How can we work together in disagreement, systemic dislocation, or with commonalities that don’t yet exist; what kinds of support structures and working methods might make this possible?
This seminar explores three approaches to navigating the contexts and conditioning effects of concrete and abstract structures that fix, repeat and divide.
It will move between different scales, perspectives and possibilities of the intra and infra-structural — the relations between and the relations within — to discuss how forms of collaboration can reproduce structural conditions as well as move to different kinds of speculative futures, politics and problems.
Threading through the presentations is the question of whether there is a transitional, resistant and transformative potential in these structures, whether they are open to being more than one thing at once.
As part of ongoing research processes, the workshops and presentations will focus on methods, models and practical ways of working. It is staged in search of relevant guiding questions, relations and processes.
Tom Clark - Systemic organisation and infrastructural meanings: a panel Discussion with Victoria Ivanova on new models of systemic organisation and critique in art.
Alicja Rogalska: a workshop with Bill Gaver on cultural probes and whether they can be useful for collective envisioning of desirable futures and creating speculative narratives.
Romeo Gongora and Georgia Twigg: How can we work together (when we disagree)? How can we rethink the terms and conditions under which we participate in polarized situations? What tools can we use to collectively collaborate through divisive discourse with the aim of transformation and resistance?
This workshop aims to explore strategies to help navigate the neoliberal context of the West, which irrevocably fuels the modernist ideology of “us vs. them” that in turn affects the way we participate in transforming our society. We will come together to rethink terms such as participation, diversities, inclusion and decoloniality.
Occupational therapist Georgia Twigg will help guide us through this participatory workshop with the goal of activating theory and practice through an experiential and critical consciousness approach.
Accessibility:
Room 302 is on the 3rd floor. We regret that this room is not accessible by lift. For an accessibility guide to the St James Hatcham Building, please see here.
If you would like to discuss individual needs please contact: Emily Perry e.perry@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
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28 Feb 2020 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
Accessibility
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