
SYMPOSIUM
Speculative Design: Afrofuturist and indigenous projections
1.45-8PM, Wednesday 2 May 2018
Banqueting Suite, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU
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 relation to cultural practices including art, comics and science fiction writing.
SCHEDULE
13.30 – 14.00 |
Registration |
14.00 – 14.15 |
Introduction to symposium proceedings
Dan Byrne-Smith |
14.20 – 15.05 |
Keynote
Afrofuturism: Imaginaries, Realities and Practices
Professor Julian Henriques |
15.10 – 15.55 |
Designing a Black Futurity
Florence Okoye |
16.00 – 16.45 |
Finding Fatima: An exercise in location
Natascha Nanji |
16.45 – 17.15 |
Break |
17.15 – 18.00 |
Make It So: World-building in–and out of–Cyberspace
Skawennati |
18.05 – 18.50 |
Keynote
This Is Not My Beautiful House:
Reclaiming Our Futures from a Techno-Orientalist Vision
Kelly Kanayama |
18.50 – 20.00 |
Drinks |
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This symposium is convened by Dr Dan Byrne-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art theory, Chelsea College of Arts and presented by the Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.
Tickets: £8/6 concessions (includes a post-event drink)
Bookings: http://bit.ly/speculative-design-symposium