Events

The third and final of our symposia with the Material Ecologies of Design group organized at the Centre for Advanced Study takes place on Wednesday 22 April, under the heading Mining Modernity: Aesthetics with/out Extraction. The symposium will explore how modernity was mined in ecologically precarious nature and examine how the exploitation of extractive materials was designed into the material culture of the late 19th and early 20th century. It features talks by Emily Jane Cockayne, Helene Engnes Birkeli, Tonje Haugland Sørensen, Anna-Maria Hällgren, Denise Bertschi, Nicolas Maffei, Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith, and Thomas McQuillan.

The second of our three symposia with the Material Ecologies of Design group organized at the Centre for Advanced Study takes place on Friday 13 February, under the heading Extractive Efficiency: Global Systems, Global Objects. Speakers: Robin Schuldenfrei (The Courtauld, University of London); Anders Munch (University of Southern Denmark); Kasia Jezowska (University of New South Wales); Elisa Maria Lopez (KTH Royal Institute of Technology).