{"id":331,"date":"2017-04-20T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:50:26","slug":"workshop2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/workshops\/workshop2\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over three days in July 2017, the second meeting of the Everyday Futures Network took place in the Wearable Senses Lab, Industrial Design Department, Eindhoven University of Technology. The specific aim of the Workshop was to enable Network members from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to experience and develop <\/span>methods of making as a way of doing research. To this end, participants from the Everyday Futures Network were partnered with PhD students (who were experienced makers) from the ArcInTex European Training Network<\/a>, to create thirteen workshop teams. The Workshop was supported by Design United<\/a>, The Institute for Social Futures<\/a>, and The Demand Centre<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The workshop was based on three propositions:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Future everyday life is certain to be different from today.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Making and deploying new artefacts forms a distinct approach to exploring and developing knowledge about this future and how it gets made.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Even though futures might require and witness systemic change, it is in altered everyday lives that such change is realised and experienced. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In this context, making and deploying provides a way to research possible and preferable futures (Urry, 2016), which we did by asking \u2018what if\u2026?\u2019 with design research artefacts inspired by the idea of \u2018Designing to Know\u2019 (Wakkary 2016).<\/span><\/p>\n

    The 3 day workshop was organised in three parts: \u2018Getting Equipped\u2019, \u2018Making\u2019 and \u2018Exhibiting-Reflecting\u2019. \u2018Getting equipped\u2019 involved a series of short talks and workshops which focussed on: \u2018designing to know\u2019; developing \u2018what if\u2026?\u2019 questions about future everyday life; and, giving these questions material form. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Participants were given a tour of the making facilities, in a hands-on workshop they were encouraged to <\/span>think with materials<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>think through making<\/span><\/i>, and in a dance workshop they explored the body, materiality and space.<\/span><\/p>\n

    On Day 2<\/strong>, the workshop teams focussed on finalising their \u2018what if\u2026?\u2019 questions, and materialising these questions in an artefact. A series of \u2018making\u2019 sessions were interspersed with group presentation and discussion, a process which was made possible by expertise and assistance from the Wearable Senses Lab and D-search lab of the TU Eindhoven. The \u2018What if\u2026?\u2019 questions included:<\/span><\/p>\n