Being [More Than] Human: Fictions & Frictions

Join this talk with the UAL More-Than-Human Post Grad Interest Group in collaboration with the Central Saint Martins Living Systems Lab.
About this Event

Join this talk with the UAL More-Than-Human Post Grad Interest Group in collaboration with the Central Saint Martins Living Systems Lab.

UAL's More-Than-Human Post Grad Interest Group, in collaboration with the CSM Living Systems Lab, invites you to an afternoon programme including talks, performances, film screenings, and a break-out ‘playground' of more-than-human encounters.

Programme

1.30pm - 1.45pm [Intro]

Framing Fictions & Frictions with Figments of More-than-human Ethics with Sara Vanore Rewkiewicz and Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes (PhD Researchers, CSM Living Systems Lab)

1.45pm - 2.10pm [Talks]

Broth & Colonial Botany with Fatima Butt (MFA Alum, University of Oxford Ruskin School of Art)

Sensory Engagement & Community Gardens with McKenzie Lynch (PhD Researcher, UCL & Public Programmes Officer at the Garden Museum)

Mental Time-travelling Visualisations with Sarah Taylor (PhD Researcher, CCW)

2.10pm - 2.30pm [Performances]

Earthing Point with Daniel Thomas Freeman (MA Sound Arts, LCC)

Digital Puppetry & Robotics with Jimmy Chen & Luke Taylor (PhD Researchers, CCI)

2.30pm - 2.40pm [Screenings]

Animated film '‘The Wilt’ an extension of Keinginan [pronounced ke.i.ni.nan]' with Chase (MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures Student, LCC) and Rosalie Mamo (MA Animation Alum, UAL)

'The Chaos of Raw Unknowing' with Neus Torres Tamarit (MA Art & Science Alum, CSM) & Dr. Ben Murray (School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London)

2.40pm - 3.10pm [Playground]

The Nature of Collaboration: A Conversation and Ask-Us-Anything Invitation with Julia Schauerman (PhD Researcher, LCC), Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes (PhD Researcher, CSM LSL) & Dr. Ashish Malik (School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh)

Sensing Weather, Seeding Time, Embodied LARPing Activation with Chase (MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures Student, LCC), Rosalie Mamo (MA Animation Alum, UAL) & Valentina Cerquera Camacho (LCC, Alum) [This is a follow-on activity from the film screening]

Collective Poetry on Experiences of AI with Neus Torres Tamarit (MA Art & Science Alum, CSM) & Dr. Ben Murray (School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London) [This is a follow-on activity from the film screening]

Exploring Emotional & Physical Convergence between People & Plants with Lyndsey Miles (MA Art & Science, CSM)

3.10pm - 3.30pm [Reflections]

More-than-human Collective Creative Mapping with Sara Vanore Rewkiewicz & Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes (PhD Researchers, CSM LSL)

Being Human Festival

This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 5-14 November 2026. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org