We warmly invite you to join us for an exploration of the many ways artists, researchers, and educators are reimagining how we learn with and through materials. We’ll discuss diverse perspectives that nurture alternative, collective, and reciprocal approaches to learning, approaches grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and shared experience.

Anja Groten and Márk Redele will speak about the collaborative research that led to the publication, as well as its resonances within existing and new material-driven research initiatives.

Invited speakers, Clem Edwards (Material Kinship Reader) and Harriet Rose Morley (Waste Not, Want Not: An Incomplete Manual for Artists, Technicians and Workshops, Hard Wear, Soft Wear) discuss the intersection of materiality, art making and education with labor and collectivity, summoning the conditions under which entrenched hierarchies between "thinking" and "making" may be challenged and reimagined.

After the presentations, the speakers will go into conversation about workshops and labs as sites of fruitful contestation – as places that can resist progress-oriented neoliberal trends and the economization of education.