Studio Sessions

Led by staff and students in Art, Design, Architecture and Philosophy at Kingston University, Studio Sessions will engage a broad audience in discussion and debate about the future of these disciplines, and how they are increasingly important as ways of thinking about the world.

A personal trip back to the 1980s with Iain R. Webb, when style was born out of adversity and fashion was out of fashion.

In this session, we propose to address a question raised by Naoki Sakaï: What kind of social relation is translation in the first place?

The first of a two-part discussion related to 'Capturing the Intangible', this discussion aims to introduce and explore the notion of intangible heritage and its relationship with performance, focusing on specific examples of the use of performance within heritage practice.

A panel discussion debating and exploring new media narratives and how new networks such as digital connectivity are changing cultural interpretation and common notions of memory, identity and culture.

A screening of diverse short film works by MA Experimental Film students at Kingston University, followed by a panel discussion.

Showcasing the issues presented in the Bloomsbury publication Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture, this session explores how love and emotion can be embodied in material forms.

The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is where we came from, and what we are made of; it represents home and migration, ceaseless change and constant presence.