Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public and will take place in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design as part of the CCW Graduate School programme of events. Set in a bespoke structure designed by Ola Wasilkowska and Michal Piasecki, with a host of international contributors including staff and students from across the Graduate School. Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

Friday 21 May – Launch event 5pm —7pm
Bring things to share in our Pot-Luck of snacks, while Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive play music from the commons.

Saturday 22 May – A day of consecutive Barcamps 10am — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Sunday 23 May – Market of Ideas 2pm — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Stall holders include: Abundant Amelia (designers: Dallas Pierce Quintero), Larisa Blazic and startx, Malgorzata Bochenska / Salon 101, Chelsea MA Interior Spatial Design students, Musashino Art University (Tokyo), Geoff Cox and Rui Guerra, Ian Drysdale and ThinkPublic, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Joanna Erbel, FLAG, Angela Hodgson Teall, The KNOT Team, Owen Hatherley, Brandon Labelle, Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Michal Kozlowski, Ewa Majewska, Lidka Makowska, microsillons, Krzysztof Nawratek, The People Speak, Satelite Project of Politicised Practice Research Group, Dr Malcolm Quinn, Mike Ricketts, Anatomy of the Street (Levente Polyak and Eszter Steierhoffer), Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive, George Shire, Dr Dan Smith, Bogna Swiatkowska / Bec Zmiana, TangentProjects, Textile Environment Design (TED), Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Chris Wainwright and Cape Farwell, Joanna Warsza and Nuno Sacramento and many more besides.

Parade is at:The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU.

Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics and students and is hosted by the CCW Graduate School.

Read more about this event on the Critical Practice website.

Watch the development on the Parade Flickr page.

Installation shot, Sound Escapes, London, 2009, photo: Peter AbrahamsBeyond the Academy: Research as Exhibition
Friday 14 May 2010, 10.00 – 18.30
Drinks 18.30 – 19.30

The exhibition is increasingly being reframed as a ‘research output’, but what can new forms of research and collaboration bring to the concept and curatorship of the exhibition? Is the idea of the exhibition being distorted or creatively extended by new disciplinary practices and knowledge? In what ways do new forms of research exhibitions create new types of knowledge and experience for the audience? 

(installation shot, Sound Escapes, London, 2009, photo: Peter Abrahams)

Keynote plenary talk: Professor Bruno Latour
Confirmed speakers include Dr Gail Lambourne, Dr Angus Carlyle, Irene Revell, John Byrne, Alistair Hudson, Dr Ken Neil, Dr Leslie Topp, Professor Felix Driver, Professor David Cotterrell, Professor Oriana Baddeley, Dr Noortje Marres, Kate Southworth, Dr Susan Pui San Lok, Dr Brian Dillon and Professor David Solkin
In collaboration with and supported by LCACE

Tate Britain Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions)
Price includes drinks afterwards
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888

Chelsea College of Art and Design will be participating in ElectroSmog, a new festival that revolves around the concept of Sustainable Immobility. The festival organisers based in Amsterdam’s centre for Politics and Culture De Balie have developed an experimental interface to manage live streams from many locations around the world, exploring the possibilities of using everyday communications platforms to create an International Festival where no body has to leave home. In this way the project explores the concept of sustainable immobility in both theory and practice, with discussions, workshops, and performances taking place at each of the festival partners’ home bases.

On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th March the Dean’s office (EG04) will be turned into an informal seminar room to engage with the festival and test the possibilities of this experimental interface.

Developer, Grzesiek Sedek of Wimbledon College Of Art will present an Access Grid and the artists project Marcel as an alternative communications platform to the one developed for ElectroSmog and look at ways in which academic networks could play a more dynamic role in developing experimental platforms for wider use.

Members of the TED (Textile Environment Design) research group will make a contribution based on a subtle role that subjectivities in design  create textiles that have a reduced impact on the environment.

Chelsea College of Art and Design will not only contribute from its own location in London, but will also work in partnership with Ambient TV, based in Hackney and Tactical Technology in Bristol on Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th March.

For more information visit: www.electrosmogfestival.net

Monday 5th October 2009 3–8pm
Procedures and Enquiries 3 -  Symposium on Drawing
University of the Arts, London
Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank, London SW1P 4RJ.
Map  and Directions: http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/docs/Millbank_Map.pdf

Procedures and Enquiries 3
This is the third in our series of symposia which discusses processes and practices of spatial investigation and design in relation to contemporary drawing practice.
In the 21st century digital interfaces increasingly inform our understanding of art, architecture and design.  In the past 20 years the viral spread of computing hardware and software has re-defined the protocols and procedures of the thinking/drawing process.  Recent editing, 3D modelling and projection technology has changed the immersive possibilities of the drawing space and opened up new avenues for time-based drawing.   Many artists and designers are enthusiastic about the further potential of this technology for an expanded digital drawing practice, while others resist and continue to champion a more craft-based or hybrid approach. 

This symposium provides a chance to discuss contemporary methodologies and approaches from across disciplines.

Speakers:
Session 1 / Chelsea Triangle Space / Chelsea College of Art and Design
15.00 James O’Leary / Intro – Drawing Time
15.20 Peter Maloney / Mapping Kubrick’s TimeSpace
16.00 Matthew Butcher / The Flood House
16.40 Christian Kerrigan / The 200 year continuum
17.20 Discussion followed by break

Session 2 / Lecture Theatre / Chelsea College of Art and Design
18.00 Perry Kulper / The Long Drawn Out
19.30 Drinks etc

To make an enquiry about this event, please email j.o-leary@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Nigel Bents talking to workshop participants

“The TED Research Cluster is part of an international collaborative design project called Cultural Collage. The project is led by UAL visiting Professor Marie O’Mahony, and it will involve designers and design students from the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney, Australia, Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile and Chelsea designers and students.

Working around the central themes of recycling, mutli-disciplinary practice and cultural collaboration, the designers will be asked to choose a second-hand plastic object and this will then be sent to the group of designers in the next country to be worked on or transformed, while always maintaining its functionality. The reworked object will then be sent to the next group of designers to be worked on for a final time.

Participants will also be asked to keep a ‘passport’ of their ideas, a sketchbook which records their drawings and thoughts which will be sent on with the accompanying object.

TED recently hosted an introductory workshop at Cheslea with presentations from Marie OMahony, Kate Goldsworthy, Emma Neuberg and Prof. Kay Politowicz. Other participants include textile designer Katherine Wardropper and Nigel Bents, a graphic designer and tutor at Chelsea.

The final pieces will be exhibited as part of PassionTour, a design festival in Santiago in September 2009.”

Find out about Textile Design at Chelsea

Aileen Campbell from her work As Jane Edwards and Geoffrey Rush

This work was shown at ‘Breaking Voices’, a day of performances and presentations as part of Thinking Through Practice.  This is an on-going research project which explores manifestations of philosophical thinking beyond the academic argument-based text, and sets out to identify and investigate practices where the aesthetic and the philosophical are symbiotically related.

Thinking Through Practice