| Time | 14:15 – 15:55 |
| Location | ❷ Breakout Room 2 (CRCL PARK) |
| Capacity | 25 |
In this workshop, participants will explore the regenerative potential of magic in design through hands-on artefact making.
We will remix traditional knowledge and practices (such as folklore, mythology, and witchcraft) with playful imaginaries from Fantasy. Drawing on feminist and more-than-human perspectives, magic is approached here as a subversive and relational practice that has the potential to resist modern reductive frames and reclaim embodied, situated, and intuitive ways of knowing.
Our explorations will be grounded in everyday practices and interactions, designing for the ordinary and tangible contexts of daily life. Through making, we will imagine artefacts that take us Down-to-Earth: designs that might help us (re)connect with ecosystems (the more-than-human world), each other (our communities), and ourselves (our bodies). Magic affords working with/in the tension between the ‘here and now’ and the ‘not here, not now’ since it, through a remixed approach, bridges relational situated real-world practices and the powers of fictional Fantasy imaginaries.
By designing through/with/for magic, we open a space for alternative ways of thinking and imagining. Participants will explore and gain new perspectives, reflections, and imaginaries that support care, interconnection, and relationality towards regenerative ways of being.
Hosts/moderators
Jeff Love