Exhibitions, conferences and events

With the development and soon-to-be-launched Eadweard Muybridge Immersive Lab at the Design School, 'Equity and the Immersive Lab – Polygon by polygon: How do we build an equitable world?' looks at the systems of power related to doing research work with and within immersive technologies.

This session aims to draw out different approaches with regard to equity in relation to these technologies, and virtual and augmented realities. The session focuses on questions such as which bodies are represented and which aren't, which places and spaces are built and which aren't, who has access to these technologies, what and whose data is captured, and which experiences are foregrounded? What ways of knowing can be explored when working with immersive technologies and what might some of the consequences be of research in this field to its subjects and participants? What is the responsibility of the researcher within this field when the ethical dimensions are outpaced or purposefully neglected in relation to technological advancements? In a space that is asymmetrically powered. And while these questions seem human-centric, they are meant to speak of a larger ecology.

• 22 June 2022
• External keynote presentation: Dr Eleanor Dare and Dr Dylan Yamada Rice
• Speakers: Tonie Louise (Lou) Sands and Xavier Sole

Knowledge in Action looks at the socio-political agency in the practice of the speakers and how to make sure that research doesn't end on a dusty bookshelf. The aim of this session is to collectively strategise ways we can increase agency and influence through our practice research.

• 1 July 2021
• External keynote presentation: Dr Ramia Mazé
• Speakers: Dr Cathy Gale, Marcus Leis Allion

The Dot on the Monkey's Face. This session showcases and celebrates the topics and methods related to the complex understandings of 'the human' and 'the body' in the practice of the speakers. If research purports to be a systematic means of discovering the ‘not yet known' communicated through explicit means, then how can this be harmonious to practices that delve into layered, ethereal and slippery themes?

• 9 June 2021
• External keynote presentation: Ruby Hoette
• Speakers: Rachel Davies, Dr Beatrice Jarvis, Keira Greene, Iain R Webb, Dr John Miers

The One in Question looks at diverse strategies for social engagement and co-authorship, with the aim to question our position in relation to who has the right to design and research: For whom? With whom? About whom?

• 21 May 2021
• External keynote presentation: Onkar Kular and Henric Benesch.
• Speakers: Alessandra Fasoli, Livia Dubon Bohlig, Dani Admiss, Rachel M Lillie