Related Seminars and Public Engagement: 2011

Spring semester (January-May) 2011

‘Creative collaboration: The Rubber Room’. Undergraduate seminar.
Department of Theater Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

  • Gülgün Kayim, Instructor.
    Students developed a 24-hr site-specific performance based on teacher reassignment centers or ‘rubber rooms’, field interviews with high school teachers currently in rubber rooms, student teachers and current teachers. Performed inside a classroom at Southwest High School.

Spring semester (January-May) 2011

‘Experiments in Design Process: Mapping Spectral Traces’. Interdisciplinary graduate seminar.
Landscape Architecture, College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

  • Rebecca Krinke, Instructor.

12 February 2011

‘Art & Geography Symposium’
PLaCE Research Centre, School of Creative Art and Design, The University of England, Bristol UK.

  • Iain Biggs, Organizer.
    Explored a diverse range of place and landscape related research by academics, curators, and artists including: Stephen Daniels, David Crouch, Janette Kerr and Claire Doherty (Director of Situations, www.situations.org.uk)
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18 February 2011

‘Navigating the Aftermath’. Artists’ panel discussion and public forum.
Iraqi American Reconciliation Project (IARP) and the Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

  • Joyce Lyon, Panel moderator.
    Artists from Iraq and the United States discussed the ongoing war and its aftermath, with Sundus Abdul Hadi, Monica Haller, Aaron McLeod, Jane Powers and Megan Rye. In conjunction with an exhibit curated by Tricia Khoturetsky.

5-6 June 2011

‘Warplands’ workshop.
Alkborough, North Lincolnshire UK

  • Michael Pearson and Stephan Daniels, Organizers; Iain Biggs, Participant. Funded through the AHRC ‘Landscape and Environment’ programme.
Image: Julian's Maze, Alkborough, North Lincolnshire, OS Map Ref SE879217,
Warplands workshop, June 2011; photo by Iain Biggs
This is not Haifa Street, ©Sundas Abdul Hadi;
part of the 'Discussing the Aftermath' seminar with Joyce Lyon
Mapping Spectral Traces