2:00pm-3:30pm on Wednesday 25 March
Times shown are in GMT (UTC +0) up to the 26th March. For events on or after 27th March times are in BST (UTC +1).
Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
In this workshop, participants will artistically create their own islands while reflecting on the nature of island places and practices of natural history archiving.
The session will begin with a short introduction by the organisers about approaching island-related themes of time passing, evolutionary processes, landscape change and knowledge preservation. The organisers will draw on examples from their own research on Lord Howe Island, in Australia, and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), in the UK.
Participants will then be invited to draw or collage to create a response to the presentation by creating an island. This can be a real, imagined or metaphorical island.
In the last part of the session, the group will have the chance to share and view the works that have been created. The participants will be encouraged to draw connections between the pieces, discuss between themselves and notice the responses of others to their ideas. This final aspect of the session is intended to highlight the relationality of creating and responding. This relationality is sometimes obscured, but is always present, is the dynamics of island environments.
