In Autumn 2017, the group held three monthly events as ‘Catalytic Converters’ to discuss and generate research ideas, stimulate interest in the group, and to look at opportunities to widen our network and group membership. These 3 salons/open forums/events, replaced the standard LINES group meetings, as an alternative format. Mon 16/10 – The Stories […]
Alys Scott-Hawkins http://www.alyshawkins.co.uk/ A LETTER TO MY PROJECT All are welcome to this inaugural seminar by the Lines : Design(ing) Stories research group 4-5pm, Seminar Room 2.13, Evolution House Alys’ works with animated documentary, uses drawing to explore the world and to hunt out difficult and unusual stories. Her short films have been screened at […]
We held our first salon this afternoon with the overall theme of ‘what we saw, did or found’. The theme allowed members to choose whether to discuss their own research or to introduce someone/thing else. We began with a fascinating presentation from Lindy Richardson on her interests in embroidery, from her archival work with the […]
We held our first group meeting at the start of term trying to get a sense of what each member wanted from the group and how we each viewed research. The group (like the school) is multidisciplinary but the common ‘threads’ of narrative, memory and place kept coming up and allowed us to develop our […]
