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Led by Dr Lucy Bollington and Dr Véra Ehrenstein
This theme was open to the widest possible interpretation to address the concerns of many disciplines and departments while providing a frame for thinking across or even bypassing entrenched or established modes of thinking.
It could include the following concerns:
- Chaotic/unpredictable change: unsteady movement, elemental disturbance, liveliness of matter and mood, weather and wind
- Turmoil, instability, upheaval, tumult, unruliness, uncontrolled passions, confusion, unsettlement
- Turbulent times/journeys/environments: materials, flows, natural forces, economies
- Wild and erratic motion, force, intensity, feeling, velocity
- Unpredictability/instability/precarity: of markets, emotions, atoms and areas
- Disruption of forms/genres: radical destabilisation of conventions, precedents, procedures and norms
- Turbulence and aesthetics: melodrama, horror, noise, scale, the sublime
- Turbulence and subjectivity, psychological unpredictability
Image: Natural disaster, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). Black chalk, pen and ink on paper, between 1517 and 1518.