---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Furtherfield <[email protected]> Date: Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:33 AM Subject: WORKSHOP: Living Assemblies - Design Your Silken Self To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> View e-mail in browser <http://crm.furtherfield.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=48> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=291&qid=33925> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=292&qid=33925> Living Assemblies - Design Your Silken Self ------------------------------ Sat 6 - Sun 7 June 2015, 10am - 6pm ------------------------------ ‘Living Assemblies’ is a hands-on workshop, led by designer and researcher Veronica Ranner <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=293&qid=33925>, investigating the coupling of the biological material silk, with digital technologies. This workshop is organised in partnership with The Arts Catalyst <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=294&qid=33925> in cooperation with Furtherfield <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=295&qid=33925> . We invite participants (experts in their own field – artists, designers, scientists, writers, technologists, academics, and activists) to join a weekend-long workshop, in which we will experiment with silk and a range of transient materials to imagine potential future applications for combining biological and digital media. *+ More about this event <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=292&qid=33925>* ------------------------------ Apply to attend the workshops ------------------------------ If you would like to attend the 2-day workshop please send a statement of no more than 100 words and explain why you would like to attend and a brief summary of your background. *Deadline for applications:* 5pm, 18 May 2015 *Please email:* [email protected] **Participants must be able to attend the full 2 day workshop** **Please note spaces are limited** Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops, inspirational materials, tablets and cameras along, to enrich the tool set for story crafting. ------------------------------ Location ------------------------------ Furtherfield Commons Finsbury Gate - Finsbury Park London MAP <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=296&qid=33925> ------------------------------ Transport ------------------------------ Tube: Manor House, Finsbury Park Buses: 141, 341, 153, 253, 254, 259, 29, 4, N253, N279, N29 Train: Finsbury Park, Harringay, Harringay Green Lanes stations ------------------------------ About Furtherfield ------------------------------ Furtherfield <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=297&qid=33925> is the UK's leading organisation for arts, technology and social change. Since 1997 Furtherfield has created online and physical spaces and places for people to come together to develop and create critical experimental art and digital technologies on their own terms. Furtherfield Gallery and Commons are based in the heart of London's Finsbury Park. This serves as a hub to connect and activate local and international communities of artists, technologists, thinkers and doers. ------------------------------ *Furtherfield is supported by Haringey Council and Arts Council England through the National Portfolio funding programme.* ------------------------------ <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=298&qid=33925> Furtherfield <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=297&qid=33925> - A living, breathing, thriving network for art, technology and social change since 1997 Click here <http://crm.furtherfield.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=293&qid=33925&h=c5ad36e1d5f750b4> if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter. McKenzie Pavilion Finsbury Park London, N4 2NQ -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/