Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Reclaiming Wisdom Start Time 12:00 Running Time 30 Minutes Location 9. Gravesend Library Event Type Talk About the Event Introduction Why does our education system emphasise head-based learning at the expense of the hand or the heart? What is education's ecological purpose? What is the point of human beings? Unless we find good answers to the above questions, future educators will become passive bystanders in a technological arms race between gadgets designed to fabricate the evidence of learning and gadgets designed to detect plagiarism. More on the event lead John Wood (b. 1945) is Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths College, University of London. As Deputy Head of the Fine Art Department at Goldsmiths (1978-1988) he taught many well known YBAs ('Young British Artists') before creating undergraduate and postgraduate design degrees that foregrounded ethical and environmental aspects of design's impact. These programmes helped to shape the current design department. In 2002 he co-founded the Writing-PAD Network and in 2007 launched the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect). John's most recent book is Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene, (2022), Routledge, London & New York, ISBN 9781032067520. He is also an active and original member of the cult band 'Deaf School' and performs stand-up comedy as 'The Reverend Max Ripple'. Event Information This event is Free Recommended for 14+ This event is for educators, academics, policymakers, and anyone interested in reshaping education to address ecological and social challenges through holistic, community-driven approaches. ___ Even more information ___ THE UNIVERSITY IS DEAD... ...long live the networked micro-local university newschoolfutures.com whole-learning | New School Futures New School Futures Whole learning “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” E. O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009 newschoolfutures.com whole-learning | New School Futures New School Futures Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Roy Dodds Drums Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 30 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

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The Papermaking session was an opportunity to drop in and have a go at making a piece of handmade paper with the former head papermaker from Empire Paper Mills, Greenhithe and award-winning print artist in residence, Dawn Cole. Papermaking Drop-In < Back 28 September 2023 The Papermaking session was an opportunity to drop in and have a go at making a piece of handmade paper with the former head papermaker from Empire Paper Mills, Greenhithe and award-winning print artist in residence, Dawn Cole. Previous Next About the event Tony Thorley Tony Thorley 82, started at Empire Paper Mill (Greenhithe) in 1955, aged 15. He took Reed company's papermaking training course, which lasted for 5 years & then worked his way up through the company to become production manager. Dawn Cole Kent-based artist Dawn Cole works primarily as a printmaker using numerous techniques that utilise personal archives and national collections to explore themes of recollection, memory and memorial. Winner of the 2011 V&A Print Prize, Dawn also founded the Pushing Print Festival in Margate. Dawn was the first Artist-in-Residence in Canterbury Cathedral 1500 year history and has received several Arts Council England awards. Empire Paper Mills Background The Empire Paper Mills (formerly Ingress Abbey Paper Mills), constructed between 1906 and 1975. The Mill was located on the south bank of the Thames Estuary, in the northeastern corner of Ingress Park, the Formal Gardens and Park associated with Ingress Abbey. It closed down in 1993. The site is now being redeveloped as part of a housing development. Other points of interest: The paper making process uses vast amounts of water and to supply the mill two wells were sunk inland. One was at Greenhithe, but the main well was sunk at Southfleet, 2km inland from the mill, from which water was pumped to a holding reservoir of half a million gallons capacity, between the well and the mill. From this reservoir it was pumped into the complex as required. Fire prevention was of paramount importance, hence the steel framed structure and concrete floors. The mill was also fitted with self-closing fire doors. In addition the mill was provided with a fire pump house, hydrants, sprinklers and latterly its own fire engine, housed in a garage close to the pump house. Attention was also paid to the quality of life of the workers. A model housing estate was erected to the south of the mill, which still survives as the Knockhall estate. The mill itself was provided with catering and dining facilities, recreation grounds and gardens (although the latter are not located, the mill's position within the grounds of Ingress Park and Gardens suggest an answer to this). The Mill appears to have been plainly decorated for most of its life, although there was some evidence of a 'corporate colour scheme' of green and white, when the Mill was owned by Reed Group. ( https://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploringKentsPast.Web.Sites.Public/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MWX17331 ) This event series has concluded Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

Two sell-out shows saw the Laserium transport audiences beyond the usual live performance, immersing them in a visual and sound mindscape. Post-event reviews described the experience as evoking the creation of the universe, forming unexpected narratives, and delivering sensorial experiences that transcended traditional perception. Funki Porcini Laserium Sunday < Back 28 January 2024 Two sell-out shows saw the Laserium transport audiences beyond the usual live performance, immersing them in a visual and sound mindscape. Post-event reviews described the experience as evoking the creation of the universe, forming unexpected narratives, and delivering sensorial experiences that transcended traditional perception. Previous Next "Scrambled brains," "unexpected connections of characters with the sounds," and "took the brain to many different places and calming" are just a few of the comments from attendees of the full Laserium at the Fourth Portal. The hundred-plus comments from the hundreds who viewed the 10-minute Laserium tasters during the Gravesham Light Festival had already piqued audience anticipation. What was encountered took the full-show audience well beyond typical live performance expectations. With over 800 lasers pulsating to a specially written composition, the Laserium is a masterpiece by Ninja Tune veteran Funki Porcini (James Braddell). Sitting in a blacked-out Fourth Portal, a former seafarers' chapel, the Laserium took the audience on a unique and surprising journey that "fully immersed" yet "allowed space within the mind to make your own narrative" (audience comments). https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2fcede_7a7a9e316d5841b4940a612b1e5ef75d/360p/mp4/file.mp4 Full Laserium show audience reviews, Sunday, 29 January 2024 Who is Funki Porcini? James Braddell, aka Funki Porcini, is a British music provocateur and humorist of the early Ninja Tune period. He mixes surreal jazz, found noise, synthetic strangeness, and dream logic. The name "Funki Porcini" is a twist on "Funghi Porcini," the Italian name for the mushroom Boletus edulis, commonly known as "penny bun." He spent ten years in Italy making music for film and television. Thereafter, he returned to England. In 1994, he signed to independent record label Ninja Tune and set up his own studio, The Uterus Goldmine. This event has ended. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Jim Dvorak Trumpet Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Feb19 4 February 2019 Boat-Ting Feb 2019 http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again 2024 offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven’t seen in a quarter-century. RollingStone 30 Dec 2023 Across today’s internet, the stores that deliver all the apps on our phones are cracking open, the walls between social media platforms are coming down as the old networks fail, the headlong rush towards AI is making our search engines and work apps weirder (and often worse!). But amidst it all, the human web, the one made by regular people, is resurgent. We are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 25 years, in a way that most of the internet’s current users have never seen before. And while some of the drivers of this change have been hyped up, or even over-hyped, a few of the most important changes haven’t gotten any discussion at all. The first thing to understand about this new era of the internet is that power is, undoubtedly, shifting. That’s not just good news for the billions of people who own smartphones. It’s part of a sea change for the coders and designers who build the apps, sites, and games we all use. For an entire generation, the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies that have had enormous control over things like search results, or app stores, or ad platforms, or payment systems. Going back to the more free-for-all nature of the Nineties internet could mean we see a proliferation of unexpected, strange new products and services. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/ For more: Previous Next

Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Museum of Portable Sound Start Time 11:15 Running Time 90 Minutes Location 9. Gravesend Library Event Type Participation About the Event Introduction The Museum of Portable Sound is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and researching (primarily) non-musical sounds as museum objects. Through our collections, exhibitions, publications, social media, educational offerings, and live events, we strive to bring the culture and history of sound beyond music to the world – one listener at a time. More on the event lead Dr John Kannenberg (BFA, MFA, PhD) is an artistic researcher whose current work investigates sounds as museological objects. Via an acoustemological approach, he considers the histories and cultures surrounding sounds, the technologies that generate or record them, and the auditors who hear or listen to them. Event Information This event is free. Open to all ages. No experience required. ___ Even more information ___ For this event, John will present the Museum of Portable Sound, a portable museum that explores questions related to sonic cultures, museology, digital heritage, media archaeology, and the visual culture of sound. The presentation will consist of a display of visual objects plus a listening station that can be visited by up to 15 people at a time. The Museum of Portable Sound (est. London, UK, November 2015 by Dr John Kannenberg ) is a portable museum dedicated to the culture and history of sound. Its headquarters is now located in Southsea, Portsmouth, and operates throughout the southern UK and anywhere its Director travels. Since May of 2020, the museum has conducted online visits via video chat, and has now been visited by people all across Europe, North America, South America, Australia, India, Japan, and China. The Museum’s Permanent Collection Galleries are filled with sound objects : curated digital audio files located only on the Museum Director ‘s mobile phone . The sounds in our museum can only be heard by visiting with our Director (either in-person or online via video chat) and listening to our mobile phone – there is no app available to download and the sounds are not available online in any form. It’s not an app. It’s an experience.™ Previous Next

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