Turning your cultural heritage to a Business
Sep 28, 2024
Location
Canada- Online
Description
It's natural for young people to explore ways to turn their hashtag#passions and hashtag#skills into profitable ventures. While this hashtag#mindset spans all ages, as a forward-thinking organization, we make it a priority to equip our hashtag#community with practical insights and real-world knowledge to help them hashtag#succeed.
This month, at our Youth Leadership Forum, we are thrilled to welcome a special guest, Dr Chioma Masi Onoshakpor PhD,Engr, FHEA,CMBE, a lecturer at Robert Gordon University in the UK. Dr Chioma will be speaking on the exciting topic: "𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀". Her full profile will be shared in an upcoming post, so stay tuned!
As a hashtag#multicultural organization based in the vibrant, diverse landscape of hashtag#Canada, we witness the beauty of cultural hashtag#heritage every day. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, there are countless hashtag#opportunities to transform this richness into thriving businesses.
𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻? Don’t let your children miss this empowering session! 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀—this is an opportunity for the younger generation to gain valuable insights that could spark their entrepreneurial journey, helping to build a more industrious and prosperous society.
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲:
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This virtual event will take place as follows:
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Saturday, September 28th, 2024
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 1:30 PM PST | 2:30 PM MST | 4:30 PM EST
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Confronting Climate Change with Creativity and Collaboration
Sep 25, 2024
Location
Main Hall, King's Pavilion, King's Pavilion, AB24 3FX
The University of Aberdeen
Description
This panel discussion brings together Aberdeen-based artists and writers who are responding to climate change and its impacts on our environment through creative approaches.
University of Aberdeen Interdisciplinary Fellow, Dr Rebecca Macklin, will be joined by sound artist Dr. Maja Zećo and curator Rachel Grant to discuss their Soundwalk series about Torry’s last remaining greenspace, St Fittick’s Park. They will also be joined by poet Genevieve Carver who has been collaborating with the university’s School of Biological Sciences on research into breeding fulmars in Orkney, and acoustic monitoring at North Sea windfarm sites.
The Conference provides a platform for global knowledge sharing on a) Issues around the use of Technology to comprehend the spatial and social understanding of displacement and b) New Design Idea Collaboration on Creative Migrant Shelters. The proposed cross-geographical Conference will consist of 2 days (16 hours) of discussion/debate on the use of Technology to understand better the phenomena of border, displacement, mobility, and the use of Technology to create a knowledge base on migrant crises.
Call for papers: We invite global scholars to send abstracts on the following thematic areas addressing the various relevant issues on the use of Technology for
A. Exploring the temporality and fragility of shelter to facilitate creative migrant shelter design
B. Exploring the socio-spatial pattern of displacement and journey
C. Understanding spatial justice and social capital at the borderlands
D. Mapping the migrants' journeys for vulnerability reductions
Abstract of 300 words maximum with title and keywords should be submitted (see a template at the end) on or before 15 January 2024. Send your abstract to Helen Aggasild (h.aggasild@rgu.ac.uk). The detailed format of the paper will be available after shortlisting the abstract on 20 February 2024. The registration will be due upon receiving the confirmation letter by 30 March 2024 (£100 early bird; £150 late).
Deadline for Full Paper on or before 30 June 2024.
[Selected papers and design projects will be published in Routledge Book (proposed 2025)]
Creative Shelter Design: Architecture School Collaboration: At least three architecture schools from any location will form partners to collaborate and design a creative shelter solution for migrants and displaced. The idea should be presented on one A1 poster, demonstrating the location/place of the proposed shelter, showing the location at borderlands, background, site conditions, methods of design (plan, elevation, section, Technology, and construction details) capable of ‘self-assembly’, retractable, easy to pack for distribution as part of AID for the humanitarian agencies.
Joint Organizers
• Border Urbanism Research Centre, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, in collaboration with
• E-DAU. TEAM DESIGNERS ARCHITECTS URBAN PLANNERS IN NETWORK, Sao Paulo, Brazil and FAUUSP Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, FAU Cidade Universitária
Call from the School of Architecture,
Design and Technology
Fragmented, make-shift and poor
shelters are the ways in which migrant
depends on their protection from
harsh weather, sheltering children and
elderly Humanitarian agencies use
tents as a
Webinar: Lockdown in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage and forms of resilience among EU citizens
Sep 23, 2023
Location
RGU: World wide web
Description
The webinar involved the participation as speakers of a representative from GREC (Ross McKay) and from the local branch of Shelter (Iona Rennie), as well as a member of the Aberdeen City Council (Christian Allard). Connecting on Zoom as a speaker was Dr Emmy Van Deurzen, Principal of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Existential Academy in London.
An Artist’s Perspective: Using Play for Work with Maja Zećo
Sep 8, 2023
Location
Lincoln Museum
Danes Terrace, Lincoln, LN2 1LP
Description
Through site-specific and relational artworks, Maja explores the intricate intertwining of personal and collective narratives of identity and history. Maja's unique approach to her work involves the ‘Silencer’ performance in sensory impairment sound walking suit. The suit absorbs urban noise, enabling the wearer to experience silence while hidden binaural microphones record surrounding environmental sounds.
During this talk, audiences will delve into Maja's playful and thought-provoking creative process, which centres around site-specific and relational artworks, and the profound interplay between personal and collective narratives of identity.
Symposium “Artwise: Translating research into art”,
Jun 19, 2023
Location
University of Glasgow
Description
Invited to present with Lucia Ruggerone the paper “Falling out of love with the UK: lockdown and Brexit for EU citizens living in the UK”. This was a seminar focussing on research that used visual methods.
The event was organised by Prof Wright and Dr Gawlewicz, University of Glasgow.
PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON Performance Art Festival in Public Space | Zurich
Aug 27, 2022
Location
Zurich, Switzerland.
Description
Live performance at Neu-Oerlikon, Zurich.
The PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON has established itself not only in Neu-Oerlikon as a place of performance art, but also as an important discussion platform in the city of Zurich. It has been positioned in the public space, with a view to exchange and dialogue between artists and the audience. The direct contact between art and people is also encouraged.
New experiences and lustful approaches to the understanding of performance art should be in the foreground. At the same time, a dialogue should make boundaries between the audience and artists disappear, but should also be a studio and laboratory. A laboratory for communication and acting studio in which the performance genre is presented, as well as discussed. The PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON should be accessible to a wide public and, unlike in culturally defined space, these performances in public space are exposed to very different groups and potential dangers.
Art in public space brings about and moves a – not quite everyday – possibility to look at the world in which we live with different eyes, to reflect on it and to discuss it. This also raises the cultural-political question of temporary artistic approaches and interventions. The PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU OERLIKON is also an important platform for performance artists not only from Switzerland.
More than 170 artists have performed at the PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON in the last eleven years.
American Sociological Association conference, Los Angeles
Aug 5, 2022
Location
Los Angeles, California, USA
Description
Lucia Ruggerone and Charlie Hackett gave a Conference paper. “Living through the pandemic in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage and resilience among middle-aged European citizens. Our paper was accepted for the Emotions Section & Section on Social Psychology: Living Through a Pandemic
Webinar: Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens? Emotions and forms of resilience among middle-aged Europeans
Jun 13, 2022
Location
World wide web. RGU
Description
Charlie Hackett and Lucia Ruggerone presented their findings to their research participants and discussants: Dr Paulina Trevena (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Justyna Pilarska (University of Wroclaw, Poland). The discussants presented their research on migration and gave some critical analysis on how they viewed the research on EU citizens living in the UK through Brexit and Covid
Caring in a digital world; Lessons from Research
Apr 29, 2021
Location
Edinburgh University world wide web
Description
Completion of ENURTURE study exploring mental health and social media use among care leavers and those with care experience. This was a webinar where we discussed our findings and had people who worked with young people in care.
Public engagement and dissemination of research into how young people perceived terrorism in the media.
This took place at Ocean Terminal a shopping precinct in Edinburgh where we invited young people of aged 15+ to take place in a workshop. "You are invited to express your own understanding of terrorism and violence, arising from exposure to news reporting and imagery on TV, social and wider media".
Soundwalk series with Maja Zećo - discussion event
Location
Old Torry Community Centre Assciation SCIO
2 Abbey Place Aberdeen AB11 9QH
Description
Take part in our discussion event at Old Torry Community centre, the event is free and open to participants of the Soundwalk Series led by artist Maja Zećo at St Fittick’s park.
Since October Maja has developed a series of soundwalks, these walks focused on listening to the environment and designed to immerse walkers in the sound of a place.
Through guided questions and scores specially designed by Maja. We have listened to the rich soundscape of the park; natural and manmade, loud and quiet. Explored the sounds we hear now and into the future, and reflected through notes, drawings and conversation.
The discussion session is a space to share reflections and continue the conversation in an informal setting with the project team and each other. Participants are welcome to bring along their notebook to share. The co-organisers will also share reflections and thoughts on the broader project ‘Living with Energy Transition’, with opportunities for questions and dialogue.
Lunch and hot drinks will be provided, a schedule outline and access measures are below. If you have any questions about this event or would like to know more about the project, please contact Rachel; rachelagrant1@hotmail.co.uk
Organisation:
The Soundwalks are part of a research project “Living with the Energy Transition”, co-organised by interdisciplinary practitioners: Gisa Weszkalnys, William Otchere-Darko and Rachel Grant (Fertile Ground). They are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
For our next ONE WORK event, Maja Zećo will discuss her recent work In Search of the Sun (2021), which was developed during a residency at Aberdeen Art Gallery during the pandemic. The work is part of a body of research into creative ‘de-modernising’ strategies that encourage artists to reflect on aspects of existing public art collections. We recommend watching In Search of the Sun in advance of the discussion, available to view here for the month of March 2022.
In Search of the Sun draws on the sculpture Eastre (Hymn to the Sun) (1924) by JD Fergusson, a work from Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums’ collection. The film explores how the meanings associated with the figure of Eastre have changed significantly over time and geography, complicating JD Fergusson’s depiction of her as a Saxon goddess.
The figure of Eastre began as Inanna in Mesopotamia, mutating into Ishtar in Assyria, Oshtara in Germany and then, via the English monk Bede the Venerable became known as Eostre in eighth century Christian Northumbria. Eastre was originally understood as a ‘promiscuous figure of political power, martial prowess and sexual allure’ in her earliest incarnation and by the time her name was mentioned in England, she was being depicted as a goddess of fertility and spring.
In Search of the Sun can take the form of a live performance art work as well as a multichannel video installation. It is presented here, online, as a single channel video.
