Shoptalk: Field Tools for Critical Making
Workshop leaders (varies depending on location): Sara Dean, Glenda Drew, Beth Ferguson, Tom Maiorana, and Jiayi Young
The Paseo Public Prototyping Challenge and Festival, San Jose, 2017
The International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), Manizales, Colombia, 2017
Imagining America National Conference, University of California, Davis, 2017
Shoptalk: Field Tools for Critical Making is a workshop in which participants practice methods of thinking and making to promote social resiliency, art for social change, and participatory action for peace. This workshop gives participants the opportunity to collaborate and build their own field tools and explore new approaches to making. Workshop leaders start with short presentations about their own community arts practices and case study overviews. Workshop participants then have the opportunity to introduce themselves and brainstorm topics and mediums to create projects. Methods for collaboration, through rapid prototyping and problem-solving, include creative acts of listening and shared narratives and visions of possible futures. Shoptalk looks beyond solo authorship to explore and practice processes for collaborative making; identifying and establishing new toolkits for peace and safety; tools for engaging digital communities in meaningful ways; creating practices of identity and disguise in precarious situations; and creatively exploring and establishing practical and theoretical relationships with peace and nature.
The Paseo Public Prototyping Challenge and Festival, San Jose, 2017
The International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), Manizales, Colombia, 2017
Imagining America National Conference, University of California, Davis, 2017
Shoptalk: Field Tools for Critical Making is a workshop in which participants practice methods of thinking and making to promote social resiliency, art for social change, and participatory action for peace. This workshop gives participants the opportunity to collaborate and build their own field tools and explore new approaches to making. Workshop leaders start with short presentations about their own community arts practices and case study overviews. Workshop participants then have the opportunity to introduce themselves and brainstorm topics and mediums to create projects. Methods for collaboration, through rapid prototyping and problem-solving, include creative acts of listening and shared narratives and visions of possible futures. Shoptalk looks beyond solo authorship to explore and practice processes for collaborative making; identifying and establishing new toolkits for peace and safety; tools for engaging digital communities in meaningful ways; creating practices of identity and disguise in precarious situations; and creatively exploring and establishing practical and theoretical relationships with peace and nature.
San Jose 2017 (Photo Credit: Tom Maiorana)
Manizales, Colombia, 2017 (Photo Credit: Shih-Wen Young)
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