MATERIAL, Llingenstrasse 23, 8005 Zürich
Participating the Participatory: open discussion
14.08.2021, 14.08.21, 16:00 – 18:00
- Europe
- Lab
Please join us for an open discussion about what it means to live, work, and create together. We will do a short collective reading that addresses our research, questions, and findings on participation so far, and we invite you to add your inputs during some intentional silent pauses. You can step in and out whenever you feel comfortable and relevant, or shift the conversation into new directions.
Participatory practices involve a range of techniques and activities, all of which aim to transfer power from the maker/creator/researcher to the participants, who are often members of the community in a particular context. In such contexts, participants have control over the components as well as the outcomes of the project. Therefore, participatory projects rely heavily on the input from the participants. Such projects are not limited to producing art or design objects as an outcome. Instead, they are interactions between participants and objects. By paying more attention to the process of art and design rather than just the outcome, may lead to less conventional art and design projects that focus more on the social aspects.
Nazaket Azimli
Nazaket (she/her) is an urbanist, researcher and project manager with a background intertwining between development cooperation, curation, placemaking and participatory planning.
Muj Abdulzade
Muj is a designer and researcher with interests in collage, writing and community building.
Estivariz Lopez Chiara Alissa
Estivariz, CH.LO's (she/her) sees herself as a transdisciplinary actor between performance, textiles, graphics, architecture and film.
Siu Hei
Siu Hei is a theatre director from Hong Kong, and currently studying his masters in dramaturgy in Zurich University of the Arts.