More like a Walking Tree

12 Sep 2022
 - 16 Sep 2022
Duration

No

Welcome!

 

More like a Walking Tree is a week-long immersive module where, we, as a collective, will explore alternative perspectives in this time of uncertainty around ecological imbalances.

This immersive module is offered by Creative Futures Academy (CFA), The National College of Art and Design, (NCAD), and The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Designed and co-led by Kate Brangan and Kimberly Goes.

 

Practical information

Meeting Point
We will meet on Monday 12th of September at 9:50am at the Flying Dog pop-up café located in the IMMA Courtyard. The first day will involve walking and outdoor collaboration, pack light and wear appropriate footwear and carry rainwear.

Materials
Bring any other materials you will need for observation exercises on Day 1. For the rest of the schedule, bring any materials you would require, laptop (if needed), camera, pens, ink, paper etc

Lunch
We will break for lunch for an hour each day. Lunch will not be provided as part of the programme. Make sure you arrange or carry lunch with you.

Note from IMMA
You can store items in the studios but we would advise participants they do so at their own risk and only if the studios are locked when not occupied and any high-value items should not be left in the studios. The lockers off reception can also be used to store valuables on a daily basis.

 

Locations

DAY 01 will take place at IMMA & Phoenix Park
DAY 02 will take place at IMMA
DAYS 03, 04 & 05 will take place at NCAD

IMMA
IMMA, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8, D08 FW31, Ireland
Getting to IMMA link
Please note, there is no free parking at IMMA. There is a pay & display carpark onsite.
If you have reduced mobility please let us know and we can provide you with further information.

NCAD

National College of Art & Design, 100 Thomas Street, D08 K521, Ireland

Getting to NCAD link

Please note, there is no public parking at NCAD.
If you have reduced mobility please let us know and we can provide you with further information.

PHOENIX PARK
Phoenix Park, Dublin, D08 KDC4
Getting to Phoenix Park link

Structure of the week

DAY 01, 12.09.22
10:00–17:00
Location: IMMA and the Phoenix Park

Meeting at 10:00 in the IMMA Studio Space.

Outdoor Walks will take place at the Phoenix Park from 11:00–13:00, and 15:00–17:00 on Day 01.

We will walk there as a group from IMMA. If you are driving, there is public parking at Phoenix Park. Lunch is not provided. As we will be out walking, we would recommend you bring a lunch with you that day.

LinYee Yuan’s Talk will be hosted via zoom in IMMA at 14:00.


DAY 02, 13.09.22
10:00–17:00
Location: IMMA

Meeting at 10:00 in the IMMA Studio Space. We will be heading out for a Gate to Gate Tour with Barry Kehoe, IMMA’s Heritage Researcher and Historian. Pack light, wear appropriate footwear and carry rainwear.

Here is a link to a new podcast series titled Past Futures that Barry has shared with us which is a preview to the walk on Tuesday if the participants would like to have a listen. The podcast initiated with his IMMA colleague Stephen Taylor explores the shared past and histories of IMMA and the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

Claire Walsh, Curator at IMMA will be taking us on a guided tour of The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now: The Anthropocene at 2:00pm.

Sadie Red Wing’s Talk will be hosted via zoom in IMMA at 16:00.

DAY 03, 14.09.22
10:00–19:30
Location: NCAD

Meeting at 10:00 in the Riso Room, Communication Design, First Floor of the Design Building, NCAD.
David Joyce’s Talk will be hosted via zoom in NCAD at 10:00.

Riso Print workshop with Jo Little, Or Studio will take place from 14:00–17:00.

We are currently organizing a Shared Table dinner at 17:00 where we will be providing food. In addition to this, if any of you would like to cook and bring your own food to the shared table, you are more than welcome!

DAY 04, 15.09.22
10:00–17:00
Location: NCAD

Meeting at 10:00 in the Riso Room, Communication Design, First Floor of the Design Building, NCAD.

 

DAY 05, 16.09.22
10:00–17:00
Location: NCAD

Meeting at 10:00 in the Riso Room, Communication Design, First Floor of the Design Building, NCAD.

Seán McCabe’s Talk will take place in person, in the Riso Room, at 15:00.

Recommended pre-course material

For reading, watching, listening 

Article by Kate Brangan
Article by David Joyce
Paper by Mitchel Resnick
Note: Page 1 to 3. 
From Pg. 1 “In the rain forests of Costa Rica, there is an unusual type of tree known as a walking tree. It is a strange looking tree

to Pg. 3 …Rather, it is more of an essay: intended to provoke thought and to draw attention to styles of thinking that have, too often, been overlooked and undervalued.” 

Books

Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future. Phaidon 2022.

Mary Robinson, Climate Justice. Bloomsbury Publishing 2018.

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust. A History of Walking. Penguin 2000.
Manchán Magan, Thirty-two Words for Field. Gill Books, 2020.

Reading Articles
Top 5 resources by Donella Meadows Link
We Can’t Tackle Climate Change Without You by Mary Annaïse Heglar Link
Between the things we hope for and the things we’re afraid of: Interview with Dr. Britt Wray Link

Talks/Podcasts

Designing Paradigms for a Regenerative Future Link

The Power of Multisolving for People and Climate Link

Flourish Systems Change Podcast Link

Climate Allies Podcast by Ali Sheridan Link

 

Websites to browse through

donellameadows.org

regeneration.org

MOLD Magazine

Emergence Magazine

Climateincolour.com

Nottoolateclimate.com
Works that Work

 

Links to the speakers and their websites:

Sadie Red Wing link

LinYee Yuan link

David Joyce, The Outside Press link
Seán McCabe link

 

Sharing 

If you have a book, article, etc. to share, bring it along to create a collective archive for ‘More Like a Walking Tree’. In addition to this, please also bring an object or a possession you’d be happy to part with and like to share with another participant.

 

Speakers line-up

  • Sadie Red Wing is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation of Fort Totten, North Dakota. Red Wing earned her BFA in New Media Arts and Interactive Design at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as, encourages academia to include an indigenous perspective in design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Toronto, ONT). sadieredwing.com
  • LinYee Yuan is the founder and editor of MOLD (thisismold.com), a critically-acclaimed print and online magazine about designing the future of food. Through original reporting, MOLD explores how designers can address the coming food crisis by creating products and systems that will help feed 9 billion people by the year 2050. In addition to the website and a self-published print magazine, MOLD hosts events and exhibitions, works with next generation food and lifestyle brands, and commissions products from emerging designers. In 2022, she launched Field Meridians, an arts and design organization committed to advancing critical place-based interventions to strengthen local food ecologies. Through site-specific exhibition, events and public programming, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. She is currently the editorial director of Emerson Collective and an adjunct professor at Parsons, The New School. LinYee was previously the entrepreneur in residence for QZ.com and an editor for Core77, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Theme Magazine. She has written about design and art for Food52, Design Observer, Cool Hunting, Elle Decor and Wilder Quarterly.
  • David Joyce is an Irish graphic designer, educator and founder of The Outside Press. His work encompasses several activities—including art and design practice, workshops, exhibiting, curating and publishing—which overlap to form a multi-disciplinary creative practice that is flexible and open to change. Currently, David serves as an Assistant Lecturer at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD, Dublin) encouraging First Year students to be bold and curious in thinking and learning about language, identity and their environment. The Outside Press is about Making Something Out of Nothing. As an independent producer we publish self-initiated projects, promote lectures and workshops and collaborate with artists, designers and writers to make work that is playful, challenging and inspiring. This often means focusing on manual and analogue making methods and embracing unconventional ways to produce the work—emerging digital print processes, recycled materials, collage and handmade elements.
  • Seán McCabe is the Climate Justice Officer with Bohemians – a first in the world of football. In this role, he is working with the club to design climate responses that can be led by, and empower, the club’s fans and their communities. He also works with the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative – a global coalition of organisations working to secure children’s right to a safe and healthy environment. Previously he worked with the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, in seeking to advance climate justice within the UN system, and developed The People’s Transition – a participative decision-making model that views climate action as an enabler of local development and gives people and communities ownership of the transition to zero carbon societies to tackle inequality and raise standards of living through the delivery of climate solutions.

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