WORKSHOP SERIES
multi-disciplinary virtual gatherings for writers, artists, designers, and researchers who want a regular space to tend to their creative + intellectual practice— in community.
1x per month, every last saturday
2.5h per session, live on Zoom
billed monthly | cancel anytime, no questions asked
w.1.8 speculative hyperobjects
date: august 29th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
how do we write the ungraspable? in this session, we will explore how we are already, always in intimate relations with hyperobjects– “viscous”* objects that are too big to see/touch/know all at once… like Plastic, nuclear, and ‘artificial intelligence’ technologies. together, we will craft sensorially-oriented language for these incomprehensible things which shape how we be/become/belong-in ecologies.
thinking-with: *Timothy Morton, Édouard Glissant
frequently asked questions
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yes! subscribe any time and your first session is the next one on the calendar. you won't start from the beginning, but each workshop is designed to be entered independently. no prior sessions are required, and you won't feel lost.
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every session is recorded and the replay is shared with subscribers within 24h. you'll never lose access to a session you paid for, even if you couldn't attend live.
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no. the workshops are designed for lifetime learners, writers, artists, researchers, designers, facilitators, and anyone who desires to deepen their critical thinking skills. come curious.
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sessions meet at 18:00 CET | 12PM EST | 9AM PST every last saturday of the month. if your time zone makes live attendance difficult, the replay is always available within 24h.
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the workshops are a monthly drop-in series. low commitment, CHF 23/month, cancel anytime. THE RADICAL WRITER is a 13-week intensive reading/writing course with a cohort, curriculum, workbooks, and guided feedback. think of the workshops as a way to experience the living room studio ethos before committing to the full course, or as an ongoing practice alongside it.
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cancel at any time from your Squarespace account. no email needed, no questions asked. your access continues until the end of the current billing period.
what’s included
⟡ monthly workshops, with seminar-style teachings + writing prompts
⟡ WhatsApp community chat to build relations + share resources
⟡ workshop board with core + supplemental research materials
our next workshop is: w.1.8 speculative hyperobjects
saturday, august 29th at 18:00 CET | 12PM EST | 9AM PST
previous workshops
w.1.7 underland as praxis
date: july 25th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
“The underland is vital to the material structures of contemporary existence, as well as to our memories, myths and metaphors. It is a terrain with which we daily reckon and by which we are daily shaped.”* in this making-as-thinking** workshop, you are invited to conceptualize an inversion of your habitual orientation to place, to sensitize your intellectual + creative lens to ‘invisible’ deep time structures, and to shape a small object that encapsulates your ongoing-relation with a chosen site of investigation. our shared praxis during this time will also involve thinking critically about the agentic-matters that we invite into our making.
thinking-with: *Robert Macfarlane, **errantry media lab, Karen Barad, Mary Shelley
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w.1.6 an ethic of sand
date: june 27th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
understanding sand is not dissimilar to the experience of trying to hold it tightly in our hands: the stronger our grasp and certainties about it, the more it slips through our fingers. sand is matter erodes the social constructions + scaffolding with which design(ing) often manifests, and is predicated on. in this workshop, we will sit with the uncertainty + malleability that sand challenges us to think through, opening up questions about how to collaborate instead of “use” materials in a creative, design and/or architectural practice.
we invite you to come with a material you are thinking and/or making-with. the workshop will utilize discursive, design and ecological lenses as points of emergence for creative research.
thinking-with: Ariella Azoulay, Stacy Alaimo, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, William Cronon
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w.1.5 making living room
date: may 30th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
from the familiar to the abstract, the concept of ‘living room’ has long traversed cultural + linguistic boundaries. inspired by Ruth Asawa’s sculpting practice, June Jordan’s poetry + photography after visiting Lebanon, and Henrike Naumann’s history-furniture installations, we will consider the living room as a site of geo-political entanglements. our primary lens of analysis for this workshop will be the medium of photography, and participants will be invited to make prototypes from speculative prompts. how does the domestic move within + beyond the home?
thinking-with: June Jordan, Ruth Asawa, Henrike Naumann
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w.1.4 scaffolding-of-mind
date: april 25th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
scaffolding-of-mind is an awareness framework that softens us into a more relational act of reading, writing, and speculative making. in this workshop, we will think-with the worldmaking practices of June Jordan + James Baldwin, with a close reading of Harlem as a site for re-designing temporal/spatial relations. through the fields of architecture, urban planning, and fiction writing, we will thread the structural connections between our psyches and the built environments that shape us + are shaped by us.
thinking-with: James Baldwin, June Jordan
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w.1.3 research(ing) as curiosity
date: march 28th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
for intellectual wanderers interested in the art + spirit of research, where intuition, methodology, and practice intersect to create new pathways for thought-full storytelling. we will emphasize transdisciplinary strategies for creative and independent scholarly work, with a focus on citational politics as a restorative practice. how can research become a form of listening, activated through sensing, reading, and writing? how can research restore our forgotten/erased intellectual lineages?
thinking-with: Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Sara Ahmed, Max Liboiron, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, errantry media lab
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w.1.2 rituals of technology
date: february 28th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
how do we intentionally dialogue with technologies? this session will investigate historical + contemporary case studies of technological inventions that have re-shaped arts, ethics, senses, and psyches. we will explore the ‘viscosity’ of particular technologies and their immeasurable + infinitely tentacular impacts on our worlds. what a typewriter is to poetry; what the internet is to knowledge; what celluloid is to filmmaking.
thinking-with: Robert Duncan, Timothy Morton, Ana Vaz, Donna Haraway
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w.1.1 archival materialisms
date: january 31st at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
discover how to deepen your creative practice through the material reading of archival research, a process that holds the ability to challenge our assumptions around knowledge and its production. focusing on archival literacy beyond the academic scope, we will introduce conceptual frameworks for approaching the future-past-present through material, memory, and media. how do we read archives with a heightened perception of their material being(s)?
thinking-with: Saidiya Hartman, June Jordan, Etel Adnan
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