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Elizabeth La Pensee, She Carries the Water. Courtesy of the artist.
Talk
Speculative Design: Afrofuturist and indigenous projections
2 May 2018
Event times
2pm - 8pm
Cost of entry
£8/6
Address
- 16 John Islip Street
- London
- SW1P 4JU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 2, C10, 36, 77A, 88, 185, 436
- Tube: Pimlico, Vauxhall
This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners whose work engages with the themes of Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futures, and other emerging areas of science-fictional/future-orientated cultural practice.
About
This afternoon symposium brings together researchers and practitioners whose work engages with the themes of Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futures, and other emerging areas of science-fictional/future-orientated cultural practice in which people of colour, indigenous cultures and non-Western subjects take centre stage.
Speculative design will be addressed in terms of its ability to raise problems, rather than solve them. As a tool for speculation, it opens up spaces for presenting problems, to model alternatives, and to generate imaginative responses. It will be explored in terms of its overlaps with art practice and in in relation to science-fiction writing.
Speakers:
Julian Henriques
Kelly Kayanama
Florence Okoye
More TBA!
This event is convened by Dr Dan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory, Chelsea College of Arts and presented by the Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.
