Event overview
Led by Dan McQuillan (Computing) and Kat Jungnickel (Sociology), this experimental event provides students with the chance to make research ideas and problems into a series of material objects or ‘Enquiry Machines’.
It's a bit like a hackday, but with string, paper, cardboard boxes, cable ties, duct tape and any other junk that people care to bring!
Enquiry Machines enable a critical engagement with materials and making. They bring to life a constellation of concepts and methods, offering students a chance to critically engage with ideas and processes in new dynamic forms. We aim to push students out of their comfort zones, inspire them to think about research as a tangible intervention and in the process develop new critical and methodological skills.
The session is designed to strengthen students' critical abilities on three accounts:
- articulating core issues/questions
- working with others
- opening up rather than closing down methods for thinking through and about complex things.
The session is structured in three parts:
1. After an introductory/framing presentation, students will be encouraged to articulate core enquiries (questions/issues/methods) in small groups. A brief outside excursion will be encouraged to collect materials and walk/think through issues.
2. Over lunch students will work together to materialise their enquiries in the form of material objects.
3. In performing the objects to peers, each group will critically articulate in/coherencies or interventions and discuss how and why specific choices were made, what metaphors were produced and how ideas were generated in assembling these machines.
The event is an collaboration between Dan McQuillan (Computing) and Kat Jungnickel (Sociology). It is supported by a Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Fellowship.
More on Enquiry Machines:
http://www.enquirymachines.com
http:///www.transmissionsandentanglements.com
More on social computing hacktivism:
http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/critical_hacktivism
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2013 | 12:30pm - 4:00pm |
Accessibility
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