More like a Walking Tree

12 Sep 2022
 - 16 Sep 2022
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NCAD

Places

15-20

Apply by

22/08/2022

Fees

Free

Apply By

08/22/2022

What is it?

 

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.

Breaking free from silos to encourage a collaborative and community mindset, More like a Walking Tree will promote the sharing of knowledge and seek to explore patterns of generosity and care within our interconnected ecosystem. Experimental, evolving, and open-ended in its approach, the module will set out to imagine hopeful narratives through regenerative and equitable systems and processes for now and the future.

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.

 

Who is it for?

 

More like a Walking Tree is open to all those who share a genuine desire to work collaboratively, and think in alternative and unconventional ways. We are looking for thinkers, dreamers, listeners, experimenters and storytellers, encouraging a diverse mix of participants from art and design as well as adjacent disciplines. The intensive is open to artists, designers, writers, curators and others including postgraduate students. The criteria for selection won’t be solely based on professional and academic experience. We will consider your background, interests and the themes of your work with a view to creating a multidisciplinary and coherent group.

What will I do?

 

More like a Walking Tree will commence with a collective outdoor experience and field trip. Over the course of the week, the project will take place on NCAD campus, IMMA and surrounding areas, and will harness tools of outdoor and onsite collaboration. The module will include a rich programme of seminars with international and local speakers, discussion, ideation, printing workshops and making opportunities.

This module is an immersive experience: participants must be available for the full duration of the programme and you will need to be located in Dublin from 12th-16th September 2022. You will be asked to undertake reading in advance of the event and to participate fully in discussions and group work over the course of the programme.

This module will help build skills to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. It will enable participants to develop alternative and experimental modes of thinking to approach the complexity of the crisis we face today.

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.

How do I apply?

 

Application deadline CLOSED: 22nd August 2022

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