WORKSHOP SERIES
multi-disciplinary virtual gatherings for writers, artists, designers, and researchers who want 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.1.9 Writing Writing
date: september 26th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
Writing Writing is about writing the mechanisms through which we write: designing new technologies, protocols, positions, and forms of authority from which writing, knowledge, and worlds can emerge.
moving between fiction, documentation, bureaucracy, publishing, and speculation, the workshop pays particular attention to how authorship is constructed, managed and received. who is able to write? what is the gravity ascribed to their writing? together, we will experiment with rewriting these mechanisms, asking how changing the gravity (and expectations) of writing changes what can be written, with what authority and to what end.
guest speaker: Raafat Majzoub is an architect, author, artist and founding director of the Institute for Worldmaking based in Lebanon. his work negotiates the territory of reality through literature, visual arts and public interventions, inventing and advocating accessible utopic alternatives and possible scenarios. in 2025, he served as visiting lecturer in MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology program and as research fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. he is editor-in-chief of the Dongola Architecture Series and co-editor of several volumes on architecture and cultural production.
w.1.10 sonic assembly
date: october 31st at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
from one perspective, every action or event carries a sonic or vibrational signature, suggesting that we are all co-authors of an innately musical, universal, experience. this workshop invites participants to explore their relationship to this proposition. drawing from an oral tradition approach, participants will develop a personal sound lexicon: a collection of original sonic artifacts, memories, and intuitions. these artifacts will become material for orchestral exchange, sequencing, performance, and listening. through this relational process, we will consider sound as a dynamic mode of reality-building and create space to interpret and make sense of the precise cues of dense information that arrive to us pre-verbally. this workshop will be introduced through a conversation that connects regenerative and indigenous land practices with systems design in audio-spatial worldbuilding.
guest speaker: Taus al Chalabi is a transdisciplinary artist who uses sound as an entry point to understanding, engaging with, and nurturing complex mythologies. his work has been featured on KCRW and KROQ, in AAA and independent video games such as The Sims, in exhibitions at museums, galleries, and IMAX theaters, and at film festivals including Sundance Film Festival and SXSW. Taus is currently researching the potential of ecoacoustic regeneration and leads a team of composers at Didactic Sound, an imprint of Lo Fi Music.
w.1.11 this, here, now
date: november 28th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
in a lifetime preoccupied by urgency, scale, action, and impact, how can we attend to our interconnectivity and relationships with response-ability? for this session, we will explore how practices of slowness, open and empty availability, and attentiveness at the scale of this, here, and now might offer a reframed scale for constructive intra-action. alive within this is an opportunity to examine one's own sense of scale of response-ability. as such, come curious, uncertain, and prepared to consider the urgency, scale, actions, and impact of your own practice.
thinking-with: adrienne marie brown, Ed Yong, Ursula le Guin, Lao Tzu, Karen Barad, Zhuangzi, Simone Weil, Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Jamer Hunt
guest speaker: max stearns is a design-led researcher and senior city innovation coach with Demos Helsinki. he is fascinated by how relationships construct the realities we navigate, from intimate connections to civic and systemic scales. educated in transdisciplinary design with an MFA from Parsons School of Design, max's research actively engages with how we relate to the world and to each other in (un)constructive ways. he applies a patient attentiveness and knack for connecting dots to turn sprawling, cross-disciplinary problems into carefully-honed questions and bespoke approaches to learn more. he's gratefully gained over ten years of experience in strategic design, municipal research and development, civic innovation, and relational democracy.
frequently asked questions
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yes. subscribe any time and your first session is the next one on the calendar.
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every session is recorded and the replay is shared with subscribers within 24hr. 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, and anyone who desires to deepen their critical thinking + making skills. come curious.
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sessions meet virtually 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 24hr.
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you can cancel at any time from your Squarespace account, through the “login” tab on our dashboard. your access to the series continues until the end of your current billing period.
what’s included
⟡ monthly workshops, with guest lectures + research/writing/making prompts
⟡ WhatsApp community chat to build relations + share resources
⟡ workshop board with reading materials and shared in-process work
our next workshop is: w.1.9 Writing, Writing
saturday, september 26th at 18:00 CET | 12PM EST | 9AM PST