HAK.io SGM: SCIENCE GALLERY HACKING FESTIVAL 2023 27- 28 September 2023, Science Gallery Black Box Theatre Can data (big data and small) be affirmatively thought of as playthings (or playmates) to inspire imaginative thinking within research? (Playmates for SWISP Lab include SentiOne, Mozilla Hubs, Graph Neo4j). HAK 1 SWISP Lab has been working with big […]
Sarah Healy and Kate Coleman ‘Crazy-face’ (as siri calls it) with tongue sticking out emoji-bear is a whimsical creation by Jagath, made with emoji post-it note and personal notebook. Emojis are “off the shelf” (Jovanovic and Van Leeuwen, 2018) emotive responses that are ever increasing in number and popularity. According to emojipedia, there are currently […]
Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy What kind of curriculum/s do we need for our futures? This culminating workshop with the Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators was set in the workshop calendar to co-design a climate curriculum for the upcoming show, Carbon at SGB. SWISP is doing this because climate change is a threat to human well-being and […]
Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy HAK.io Workshop 3 with Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon mediators began with a mediative SF (Speculative Fabulation) called no longer…not yet, by writer-in-residence, Jessica Laraine Williams. Jess created the SF as a participatory eco-narrative for the Climate, Art and Digital Activism Festival of ideas 2022. The intention of no longer…not yet was to […]
Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy In this SWISPy blog we show and tell the story of HAK.io workshop 2 at Science Gallery Bengaluru. Our workshops are happening as Carbon Mediators prepare for the exhibition opening later in 2023. The upcoming exhibition-season CARBON asks: How do we understand carbon beyond the catch phrases and contradictions? Why does it […]
Kate Coleman and Sarah Healy This 3 hour SWISP Lab x SGB Carbon Mediator workshop explored data in the middles; working as artists, scientists, re-searchers, inquirers, practitioners, makers, creators, playmakers and curators in a Science Gallery Network Mediator laboratory. Working within our enabling constraints of space and time, we walked, data collected, carefully coded, analysed […]
Meet the Mediators Hacking the Anthropocene workshop 1 with the SGB Mediators. HAK.io unboxing the Hacking the Anthropocene Kit for learning the land and carbon curriculum design. How do you unbox? Co-designing walking protocols for learning with the land: hacking the Anthropocene. Climate stories: Mapping our stories across time.
In July 2023 SWISP Lab joined over 200 school students at Heart for Earth Festival 2023 in Bengaluru with partner, Science Gallery Bengaluru and the amazing team of Carbon mediators who rocked the house with the ‘Let’s get Quizzy’ show. A highlight was Professor Rohini Balakrishnan starting the day with a fascinating keynote ‘Voices of […]
SSHRC Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowhip AARE University of Melbourne Dyason Fellowship Creative Futures University of Melbourne Global Student Diversification – Co-investment support for community engagement activities in India with MGSE
The first premise of wellbeing is being and staying alive. Without life, wellbeing is obsolete. This youth theatre in education project targets what has been called, in the wake of the most recent Australian family killings, ‘the most pressing issue of terrorism our society faces – where at least one woman is murdered each week’ […]