Workshop on 8th-9th of March: 'It's Not What You Think - Communicating Medical Materialities'
On the 8th-9th of march 2013, Medical Museion at the
University of Copenhagen will host a workshop entitled
The workshop builds from a central concern with
materiality, asking what can be communicated about and through it, and will be
an experimental meeting place for people with a wide range of interests in
materiality, medicine and communication. The workshop is less about presenting
current work in paper form; rather, participants will be asked to bring along
their problems with materiality, medical objects, and their communication.
Then, through object sessions, shared discussions and trips to the archives,
the participants will work together to come up with partial solutions,
pragmatic fixes, and novel approaches.
Invited participants confirmed so far include Sam Alberti (Royal College of
Surgeons), Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection), Annamaria Carusi (U Copenhagen), Sarah Davies (Arizona State
University), Sandra Dudley (School of Museum Studies,
University of Leicester), Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art, London, and Dunne & Raby Design Studio), Maja Horst (U Copenhagen), Jenell Johnson (U
Madison-Wisconsin), Angela Last (Central Saint Martins
College Of Art and Design, London), Zoe Laughlin (Institute of Making, Kings
College London), Lucy Lyons (City & Guilds of
London Art School), David Pantalony (Canada Science and
Technology Museum, and U Ottawa), and Thomas Söderqvist (U Copenhagen).
The remaining spaces will be filled via an open call: potential
participants are invited to submit up
to 300 words, one page, a short audio or video piece or a small package
communicating their interest in the workshop to itsnotwhatyouthink at sund.ku.dk by
December 1st. Decisions will be announced after Christmas.
You can read much more about the
workshop here, and find a flyer here, or email Louise Whiteley and Adam Bencard on itsnotwhatyouthink at sund.ku.dk with
questions. The workshop is supported by the
NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research section for Science Communication.
Best regards,
Lasse Frank
Marketing & Event Coordinator
Scientific Assistant