How can principles of feminist design education help us develop new tools for collective making?
In this hands-on, experimental workshop, designer and technician Harriet Morley invites participants to explore simple but effective ways of working together. Using our own bodies as tools—arms as tape measures, hands as guides—we’ll collaboratively make accidental on purpose doorstops while exploring methods to facilitate intimacy and growth with the rest of the group.
This workshop creates space for accessible technical making, grounded in care and cooperation. Together, we’ll reflect on how collective processes can transform not only what we make, but how to create better material learning environments.
This workshop is open to all, but we would like to make room especially for people who would otherwise not feel comfortable in technical workshop spaces.
Image Credit: Four women forming triangles, or the Yoni sign, with their hands against a white wall, counter clockwise from bottom right: Tania Leon, Lida van den Broek, Ananda Spies, Margrethe Rumeser, year: 198?, photo: Gon Buurman. Source: Collection IAV-Atria
Harriet Rose Morley (1994) is an Artist, Researcher and Designer from the UK. She has lived in the Netherlands since 2018, and previously in Glasgow, Scotland. Her practice, while focusing on the gender and labour politics of technical skill development within Art, Design and Architecture, ties itself intrinsically together by looking at the working conditions of cultural and technical practitioners. The current iteration of this ongoing research is titled ‘Hard Work, Soft Work’. It explores ‘Hard Work’; (the ‘hard’ technical skills both taught and exchanged during these processes of learning) and ‘Soft Work’ (the often less valued, less acknowledged and rarely seen ‘soft’ skills of communication, organisation, mediation and solidarity), proven integral to working collectively.
