Making Possible: a 1-day symposium

Making Possible, is a 1-day symposium (16 May 2024) exploring how, within austere regimes of tightening controls and oppressive surveillance, possibilities can be identified and constructed, potentialities realised. It is a symposium that explores situations, spaces, and actions of making possible, a discussion of other futures constructed from care, generosity, and compassion—with determination. Between theoretical investigations and grounded empirical research, speakers will discuss what AbdouMalique Simone describes as the ‘possibility for propositions and the rehearsal of experimental ways of living that circumvent debilitating extractions, surveillance, and capture—for the time being.’ (Simone 2022:6)

Speakers include:

Anushka Athique (Spatial and Digital Ecologies, University of Greenwich), Elisa Cattaneo (Domus Academy / Politecnico di Milano), Kate Davies (Unknown Fields / Architectural Association), Stephen Kennedy (Sound and Image, University of Greenwich), Maria Korolkova (Spatial and Digital Ecologies, University of Greenwich), Justin McGuirk (Future Observatory - Design Museum with AHRC), Victoria Pratt (Invisible Flock), and Natasha Trotman (Royal College of Art).

The event will be chaired by Ed Wall (Spatial and Digital Ecologies, University of Greenwich).