Dear all I hope you can join us at the V&A this weekend for the the Digital Design Weekend celebrating collaborations in art, design and science!
There will be loads of installations, pop up labs and workshops to take part in as well as a Climate Change and Fashion Hackathon, where you can help us test the prototypes or help solve problems! The Digital Design Weekend is a great chance to meet all the brilliant artists, designers, scientists and makers showing work, so we hope to see you there! All the best Irini Digital Design Weekend Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September 10.30-17.00 Sackler Centre and other Museum locations All events free and drop-in / no booking required Take part in a weekend of events celebrating collaborations in digital art, design and science, including interactive installations, bacteria textiles, hacking projects, biotechnology, inventive electronics, family activities and more. Experience Michael Takeo Magruder's real-time virtual world artwork in a digital planetarium, join Anna Dumitriu's Bacteria Quilt Making Workshop or one of our pop up Labs and Climate Change & Fashion Hackathon, and take part in the Disaster Playground roundtable by Nelly Ben Hayoun, funding Director of the International Space Orchestra in NASA Ames Research Center. Digital Design Weekend programme: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/media/uploads/files/Digital_Design_Weekend_29.08.pdf Feel free to circulate! Participants / projects: - AirPi, Alyssa Dayan & Tom Hartley - 'All That I Am', Koby Barhad - Bee Lab (Technology Will Save Us, The British Bee Keeping Association, The Honey Club and Design researchers Rob Phillips and the Horizon Digital Economy). - Climate Change & Fashion hackathon, Met Office, Helen Storey Foundation, Product Research Studio University of Dundee, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, Autonomatic and Makernow at Falmouth University and guests makers, engineers, artists, designers! - 'Disaster Playground', Nelly Ben Hayoun & guests: Prof. David Morrison, Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute, former director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute, and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, at NASA Ames Research Center, Past Director of Space at NASA Ames, USA; Prof. Steve Miller, Professor of Science Communication and Planetary Science, UCL, UK; Dr. Gareth Collins, Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK; Jonathan (Jay) Tate, Director of the Spaceguard Centre, the Spaceguard Information Centre and the National Near Earth Objects Information Centre, UK; Richard Tremayne-Smith, Former head of Space Environment and International Relations at the UK Space Agency (UKSA), UK; Matt Linton, Incident Response Specialist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA; Dr John Cumbers, Space Synthetic Biologist, Founder of SynBioBeta, Flight Director of The International Space Orchestra, USA; Debbie Lewis, Director for Resilience Preparedness at Axiom (Alderney) Ltd.; actor Ronan Le Fur, Ecole Jacques Lecoq, France. - 'Anatomies of Creativity', Michael Burton & Michiko Nitta - Codasign - Code Club - 'Colony', Gabriele Dini & David Hedberg - 'Infective Textiles and MRSA Quilt Making', Anna Dumitriu, Kevin Cole & Dr John Paul - 'Dickinson Crater II & III', Luci Eldridge - Emilie Frederique Grenier /Yesenia Thibault-Picazo /Amy Radcliffe & Amielia Katze (CSM Textile Futures) - 'Inks from Pollution', Natalie Jeremijenko (xClinic) and Gyorgyi Galik in collaboration with John Nussey - 'Repair is Beautiful', Paulo Goldstein - 'Raindrop' and 'Inflated Steel', Alistair McClymont - 'Organic Cinema', Kasia Molga, Erik Overmeire & Ivan Henriques - 'Creative Exploration of the Immunology of allergies', Solenne Morigeuad & Dr Marta Archanco - 'The Cave of Sounds', Tim Murray-Browne with Dom Aversano, Sus Garcia, Wallace Hobbes, Daniel Lopez, Tadeo Sendón, Panagiotis Tigas and Kacper Ziemianin / Music Hackspace - Katrin Baumgarten / MzTEK - 'The Arctic Poppy Chronicles', Michéle Noach - 'Nybble', Ollie Palmer - 'Reproductive Futures', Zoe Papadopoulou - SpaceGAMBIT - 'Parasitic Products - Kingdom 1', Patrick Stevenson-Keating - 'Garden of Russolo', Yuri Suzuki - 'Data_Sea v2.0', Michael Takeo Magruder with Drew Baker, Johanna Jarvis & David Steele - The Conductive Kit Company http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/2565/digital-design-weekend-3870/ For any enquiries please contact: Irini Papadimitriou Digital Programmes Team / Digital Design Weekend organiser e: [email protected]
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