Correction: We just found out there are six projects, not five.
Monica Moreno and Joe Malia, in conjunction with Newcastle University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, have organized Interventions, a show of collaborative projects by social scientists and interaction designers . SIx researchers from the University of Newcastle were paired with six designers from the Royal College of Art to explore areas of overlap. The project kicked off with an intensive, approach-building workshop and projects were developed over the following 8 weeks.
An exhibition of the work will open on Tuesday, June 29th at the Exlibris Gallery at Newcastle University in the UK. For a list of participants, click here.
Core-fave Nelly Ben Hayoun sent us Theatre of Air, conceived with Dr. Alison J. Williams, a geography researcher who specializes in UK military airspaces. Nelly and Alison have developed the idea that through personal wind farms, individuals can create radar white noise and prevent aircraft from flying overhead, reclaiming their piece of the sky.
These spaces are hidden zones of military control and power projection. They are used by UK military air forces to train and prepare for combat situations. The idea behind this project is to creatively use interviews conducted with a number of UK military pilots and navigators to think through how these spaces are performed. At the heart of these interviews was a concern to uncover the hidden geographies of military airspaces through discussions on how these users perceive and imagine the complex geometries of the spaces through which they fly. The research considers how this renders airspace as a theatre, both in the military and the performing arts sense.
Find out more about the exhibition here or head to Newcastle upon Tyne to see Nelly and Alison's 4 meter high windfarms.
Interventions/ Newcastle University Exhibition runs 29th June- 7th July The Exlibris Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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