WINTERSESSION 2019: MAKE. / Conflicted Matter

This workshop will be held in English.

About the workshop
The workshop will explore energy industries in Halle locally through the lens of multiple narratives. We will seek out and document narratives of the anthropocene, we will visit industries that utilise capital as means to produce energy and economic growth and explore and discuss the ecological consequences that often follow. In contrast we will also seek out and document narratives that offer solutions and counter arguments to the one of the anthropocene. These narratives can often be found in the form of new systems or interventions in established industrial systems that propose that we utilize or exploit nature in a more harmonious way. Creating processes where humans and nature co-create or where the human is more mindful of how the resources are transformed, used and recycled. These narratives often use a prefix like eco-, bio- etc...  one could argue that there has been a certain trend towards this narrative in the field of design lately.

Through field trips, lectures, movie screening, discussions and dialog we will question both forms of narratives and explore their problematics through a critical lens, going through notions of dystopia, utopia – dualistic thinking processes. Is there perhaps a need to render and manifest alternative narratives? To project hybrid realities? To create platforms to explore other types of living?

We will use documentation tools in the workshop as a means to explore these narratives. photographs, film, harvesting materials, collecting artefacts, creating models, maps, data and text with the aim to create a publication (map) about our explorations of the week, manifesting our perceptions and discussions.

Garðar Eyjólfsson holds an B.A. (Honours) degree in Product Design from Central Saint Martins, London and a M.A (Cum Laude) from Design Academy Eindhoven. He mixes contextual, material and narrative research in his work as a means to explore & translate zeitgeist topics. Utilizing a variety of mediums to manifest his voice, ranging from; objects, spatial, artefacts, speculation, video, performance, talking and writing. Balancing academia with studio practices his work ranges from developing his own projects, curating exhibitions, advising in the public and private sector, project managing and workshops. Garðar also writes in various publications and gives public talks across platforms, often in the form of lectures and dialog in conferences, symposium and radio. Garðar is the programme director of MA Design: Explorations & Translations program at the Iceland University of the Arts.

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Teilnehmer*innen
Max. 15

Materialkosten
10€ pro Teilnehmer*in (werden bei Kursbeginn eingesammelt)

Die Anmeldung ist verpflichtend und erfolgt von Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2019, 12 Uhr bis Montag, 21. Januar  2019, 12.00 Uhr.
Die Anmeldung für diesen Workshop erfolgt über: make(at)  burg-halle.  de
(Bitte angeben: Name, Studiengang, Studienjahr und Matrikelnummer)