PhD Seminar Series, 12 December 2024
This marks our last PhD Seminar of the year, and we will be joined by Francis Gene Rowe for a talk and workshop about the journeys of research and practice:
Of Winding Journeys and Oracular Thinking
In this session, Francis Gene-Rowe will relate how their relationship with knowledge and theory has changed over time, as well as how community and self-care has shaped their life as a practitioner and critic. Toward the end of their talk, Francis will discuss their current research interest, Speculative Divination, after which they will facilitate a research-oriented oracular making workshop.
For this workshop there is a small (optional) preparatory activity:
Preparation Instructions
- For the making portion of this session, prepare a mood board that connects in some way to your research practice, focus, and/or interests.
- Keep an open mind about the content: you can perhaps ask yourself how your research intersects with images, objects, time, spaces, emotions, meaning-making, hopes, fears, sensoriality, and more.
- Your mood board does not need to be pretty or slickly designed. The making activities will likely entail you cutting it up and possibly even trading some parts of it with others.
- Please bring 1-2 printed copies of your moodboard. Alternatively, if you send your moodboard to Megen or Francis (f.gene-rowe@soton.ac.uk), they can print it for you.