Rethinking our Relationship to Materials
Looking at the theames of Anxious Times, Polychronic Objects, An Aerial View of Time, Crumpling as a Way of Making, Making and Consuming Time and Critical Craft - to reconsider our co-making of objects with the world around us.
Material Writing
A selection of speculative writing
Workshops & Talks
A selection of workshops & talks delivered on the themes of Listening to Materials, Material Conversations, Textile Narratives, Audio Scopes for the Infra-ordinary, Crowd scourced Material Narratives and Conversations with Materials.
Current Project
The Spoon
A Novel
Genre: up-market, literary eco thriller / horror,
Pitch: In a world where everything is sentient, a stainless-steel teaspoon with a toxic agenda puts a young researcher at risk and has to be stopped.
Context
Professor Bill Keevil, Director of the Environmental Healthcare Unit at the University of Southampton writes: “Although stainless steel looks like a mirror surface to the naked eye, under the microscope it’s full of scratch marks, and bacteria are able to hide in the grooves. The reason it’s used is that it’s deemed to be easy to clean and disinfect, but if you look at a magnified image of the surface, you can see that this is just not the case.” (Keevil 2016)
About & Contact
Dr Jane Norris is Professor of digital and creative culture and Head of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology at Richmond University, the American University in London. She guest lectures on the Planet MA, Kolding University Denmark.
Ealing, London UK.
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