Posthumanism and Climate Crisis – What needs to be done?

The lab references post humanist and feminist thinking to explore and probe radical future practice models that address the interconnected climate, social, cultural, and economic crisis.

The 'So What’ element is a constant reminder of criticality that engages cross-disciplinary collaboration to avoid siloed thinking, inviting instead radical systems responses. Matter and materiality are the things and concepts we work with to form our worlds and ways of being, and these require critical design.

The lab engages posthumanities in terms of how individuals and communities can be pro-active, sustainable, and creative in the face of deficit economies that are intent on destroying the natural, social and cultural ecosystems for resource exploitation, and the implied use of the matter (+ what matters?) of the planet.

Activities

The lab will encourage cross-disciplinary discussions, inviting guest contributions and collaborations with inspiring and radical thinkers from across the academia and beyond.  It will also engage in mapping and reading of current materials and methodologies relevant for work in the posthumanist key in art and design practices of all mediums and theoretical models, and formulate new concepts, provocations, and RKE projects around ecology of practice.

Members

• Gabriela Daniels - Programme Director: Science, London College of Fashion
• Tim Stephens - Educational Developer (Curriculum), Central Services
• Helen Storey - Professor in Fashion Science, London College of Fashion
• Donatella Barbieri - Principle Lecturer: Performance
• Dinu Bodiciu - PhD Researcher
• Lydia Kaye - PhD Researcher
• Katherine Pogson - PhD Researcher