Weaving Worlds Seminar

About the event

Join us for a discussion, drinks, and celebration of the newly published themed issue of the Journal of Visual Culture on how to think and work across diverse worlds. 

The event will feature presentations from authors and a roundtable discussion on key themes of the issue, Weaving Worlds. The authors will discuss questions of evidence, affect and speculation, and how these operate within our current economy of knowledge production through the use of practices such as mapping, modelling, sensing, and storytelling. 

While these practices are not new, they have been transformed through advancements in technology and through the way they are embedded within the digital realm. Across their contributions the authors discuss the aftermaths of infrastructural transformations, sense-making practices across the geologic and subterranean worlds, counter-figuration and turbidity as practices of resistance, and the role of abstraction and imagination on knowledge making practices. 

Speakers

The event will be hosted by Nishat Awan (Professor of Architecture & Visual Culture, UCL) and the discussion chaired by Eray Çaylı (Professor of Human Geography, University of Hamburg). 

Speakers include:

• Dr Kara Blackmore, Curator of UCL Urban Room.
• Maria Dada, Lecturer in Interaction Design & Visual Communication, London College of Communication, UAL.
• Dr Ifor Duncan, Researcher at Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University.
• Dr Neda Genova, Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Southhampton.
• Dr Evelina Gambino, Margaret Tyler Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.
• Ishita Sharma, PhD candidate, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft.
• Aslı Uludağ, PhD candidate, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.