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Tim Parsons & Jessica Charlesworth
Art & Design Studio
Parsons & Charlesworth
Parsons & Charlesworth is an art and design studio that develops tangible worlds as discursive tools for critically appraising urgent issues. Co-founded by Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons, the studio’s investigative, research-driven, speculative approach uses installation, sculpture, designed objects, writing, photography and digital media to explore key social, ecological and technological challenges of our time.
Together, they develop new ways of understanding and interacting with alternative futures, addressing concerns such as the ecological crisis and the future of work through their collaborative worldbuilding projects. Their current project, Multispecies Inc., involves field research and in-depth conversations with specialists in biology, climate science, and climate modeling. This endeavor manifests as a series of narratives and objects around a fictional group of ecologists striving to cohabit with other species using advanced technologies. They are recent NEW INC Members on the Creative Science Track as part of the New Museum mentorship incubator program and both teach at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Dr. Delvina Fantini van Ditmar
Research Tutor
Royal College of Art
Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar is a biologist and design researcher. Her practice is concerned with ecological thinking, reflective systemic practices, regeneration, more than human approaches and alternative futures. Delfina has a BA in Biology and completed a year of an MFA at Konstfack University in Stockholm. She holds a PhD from the RCA with a thesis entitled 'The IdIoT'. Delfina is a co-Founder of the Design Research Society (DRS) ‘Design and Ethics’ In 2021 she was selected as one of the Future Observatory Design Researcher in Residency (DriR) at the Design Museum in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Driven by her interest in ecological thinking, reflective practices and inter-relations as a systemic response to the environmental collapse, Delfina's critical practice examines material ethics of care and the necessary paradigm shift in design.
In her teaching practice, Delfina encourages students to reflect on epistemological paradigms, envision alternative futures, think systemically and critically analyse the broader implications of their decisions.
Prof. Sara Codarin, Ph.D.
Professor
Lawrence Technological University
Sara Codarin is a techno-optimist and she loves robots. She completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara in Italy where her doctoral research investigated robotic manufacturing for the conservation of Cultural Heritage. She looked at innovative methods to update design workflows with a technology-driven approach. She spent an academic year as a visiting scholar at the College of Architecture and Design of Lawrence Technological University to develop an experimental application of her research. Her experiments simulated on-site robo-fabrication processes to produce customized units for the recovery of damaged buildings.
Her work is tied to broader economic, technological, and social changes that will affect the building culture in the next future. She holds a MArch from the University of Ferrara where she was awarded two scholarships to study abroad at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage in Bordeaux, France, and the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, Canada. She publishes her work consistently and serves as a reviewer for international conferences and journals. Her research themes resonate in her courses, which span from studio work to software labs, eco issues seminars, and digital (robo) fabrication courses.
Why Attend?
What do I get?
Aside from a network of new professional connections within an emerging domain that leverages human insight, imagination, ingenuity, and intelligence, every attendee receives complete take-away package, including presentations, annotated audio recordings, and a post-Seminar review and analysis
What was covered?
Super Seminar Season 01 / Episode 01 hosted by Near Future Laboratory looked into Futures & Foresight practices, an existentially vital form of sense-making. Translating trends, analytic research, ethnographic studies, desk analysis, these practices are in wide use amongst forward-thinking R&D and Innovation teams looking to anticipate and prepare for the contingencies of kinetic, complicated, conflicted and chaotic domains.
(If you were an attendee at SuperSeminar S02/E01, you have access to the entire seminar 120 minute recording. Contact Julian if you did not receive your instructions for access.)
SuperSeminar gives you the opportunity to not only learn from experienced practitioners, but engage in a discussion, create professional connections, and learn how you can develop the kinds of skills and the mindset to adopt unique insights into change.
Produced by Julian Bleecker founder of Near Future Laboratory
Learn how to get reimbursed for this professional learning & development package!What's the format?
Come prepared for a meaningful, rich discussion. We believe discussion and conversation, in a world where we often find ourselves on the receiving end of a firehose of ideas, is dramatically undervalued.
SuperSeminar is not your usual online presentation platform. We've inverted the model.
No more long presentations followed by 0 minutes for deep discussion, engagement, and Q&A.
In SuperSeminar, our presenters offer a tight 15-20 minute evocation, sharing brief insights on the topic from their experience. Then, much like a graduate seminar or salon, we #discuss the topic, offering attendees a unique opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the presenters and other attendees.