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May '26
Session 1: Material Care | with Pernilla Manula Philip
Session 1: Material Care | with Pernilla Manula Philip
This spring and fall Arias' Care Ecologies research group is hosting The Ugly Sides of Care Reading Group to invite a joint thinking around the topic of care-friction. For each session, an artist-researcher from the ARIAS network is invited to propose their perspective on care-friction within facilitation, through a discourse of choice. Arias is excited to invite you to the first session of this series with Pernilla Manula Philip, whose research engages with chronic illness, DIY approaches to medical tools, and questions around who gets to shape knowledge and practices of care.
This workshop brings together collective reading and hands-on making to explore care frictions and the conditions of care within collaborative processes. Starting from selected texts on disability justice and material approaches to care, participants will read aloud, reflect together, and experiment with ways of sharing attention, voice, and responsibility. Participants are encouraged to read Steven J. Jackson’s Material Care in advance of the workshop.
Participants will work with the vacuum former and materials such as clay and plastic. Moving between discussion and material practice, the session considers how tools, materials, gestures, and group dynamics shape care, and where tensions, blind spots, and dependencies emerge within collaborative work.
Participants will work with the vacuum former and materials such as clay and plastic. Moving between discussion and material practice, the session considers how tools, materials, gestures, and group dynamics shape care, and where tensions, blind spots, and dependencies emerge within collaborative work.