→ rdfs:label → "Material Interests - Salvaging the Future: Speculative Exercises in World(un)building"^^xsd:string
→ dcterms:description → "<h2>Material Interests Lecture Series</h2><p><strong>Hear from leading artists and other world-changing practitioners across the fine arts and related industries in this flagship speaker series organised by Winchester School of Art's Department of Art and Media Technology and co-sponsored by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.</strong></p><h3>Salvaging the Future: Speculative Exercises in World(un)building - with Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé</h3><p><strong>Venue: </strong><span style="font-size:inherit;">Lecture Theatre B, East Building, Winchester School of Art, </span><span class="fontSizeMedium">Park Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 8DL </span><span style="font-size:inherit;">/ Online via Teams</span></p><p><span style="font-size:inherit;"><strong>How do we save the world? Can we salvage it instead? This talk considers the concept of ‘salvage’ as utopian and explores how this practice has been implemented in moments of crisis and conflict across contemporary architecture, conservation, and speculative fiction and practice. </strong></span></p><p>(Un)building on previous work linking salvage-Marxism and the fictions of Rivers Solomon (de Bruin-Molé 2021), and engaging closely with critical perspectives on salvage and unbuilding (cf Tsing 2015; DeSilvey 2017; Halberstam 2018; Claus 2020; Phillips 2021), this talk considers the concept of ‘salvage’ as utopian and explores how this practice has been implemented in moments of crisis and conflict across contemporary architecture, conservation, and speculative fiction and practice. </p><p>Salvage offers up alternative frameworks for imagining utopias – and utopian practice – that are not defined by hope, futurity, or universalism.</p><p>This talk presents the work conducted during <span style="font-size:inherit;"><span style="color:inherit;">Megen de Bruin-Molé's s</span></span>abbatical period in Spring 2024.</p><p><a href="https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d4e094f8-59e0-4e23-9f7e-886c4e100c74%404a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8"><strong>Register HERE to attend</strong></a></p><p><i>The Material Interests Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Media Technology and Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities </i></p>"^^http://purl.org/xtypes/Fragment-XHTML
→ rdfs:label → "Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England"^^xsd:string