Weaving Worlds - MA Applied Imagination Graduate Symposium

This year, we are applying our imaginations to redefine and challenge what a symposium is or could be, presenting a series of participatory workshops, talks and performances that showcase the bold provocations and research processes of our cohort.
The title, Weaving Worlds, represents the ways diverse ideas, disciplines, and communities converge within each student project to create a more connected and future-proof world. Through action research, storytelling, and experimentation, we reveal how creativity can be a tool for real change, one thread at a time.
Featuring keynote speeches and panel talks from: Martin Kunze (Memory of Mankind), MAAI Course Leader Richard Reynolds (author of Superculture), Premila Van Ommen (author of Transmitting Traditions), and Sonja Dimitrova (founder of Tone & Detail).
Step into a space where imagining otherwise becomes a force for change and discover how today’s creative researchers are weaving the worlds of tomorrow.

An installation that presents an abstract impression of Chinese families composed of data and fragments of daily life.
13:00-14:30 / LVMH (E003); Performance/Installation

Documentary screening exploring whether spatial installations or architectural environments can allow us to feelnature again—not merely through sight, but through the body.
14:30-15:00 / The Street; Presentation/Art installation

A participatory fashion research journey transforming Chengdu’s culinary culture into sensory design philosophy.
15:00-15:45 / LVMH (E003); Presentation

An installation of artefacts exploring how wearable body modification can enable individuals to transform their self image.
15:15-16:00 / The Street; Still Images and Artefact

A workshop and installation exploring how collective imagination and gotong royong—the Indonesian philosophy of mutual assistance—can enable urban kampung communities in Indonesia to co-create regenerative futures in their neighbourhoods.
16:00-18:00 / The Street; Workshop and Installation

An interactive workshop utilising impact storytelling techniques to enable participants to strengthen their climate advocacy skills.
16:15-17:45 / The Street; Workshop

Presentation exploring how online culture moves from living on our screens to shaping our shared reality.
Contains humour that some may find sensitive.
TBC

An in-conversation panel with Birungi Kawooya, Premila van Ommen and Sonja Dimitrova (chaired by MAAI Course Tutor Zuleika Lebow) that explores what it means to craft a creative career across disciplines and practices
18:30-19:30 / LVMH (E003)

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