Social Tapestries
Location @ Dana Center:
D-studio
Date(s):
Thu 10 6:30 PM - Thu 10 9:00 PM
Host:
Giles Lane
Detailed text:
Proboscis uses practices of public authoring as developed through out Urban Tapestries & Social Tapestries projects. The presentation will provide an outline of the scavenging concept and discuss how it has been applied to a recent project, Snout.
Biography:
Giles Lane is co-director and founder of Proboscis, a non-profit creative studio based in London. He leads Proboscis' research programme, SoMa (Social Matrices), as well as directing projects such as 'Urban Tapestries'; 'Mapping Perception'; 'Private Reveries, Public Spaces'; 'DIFFUSION eBooks' and others. Giles is a Visiting Research Associate in Media & Communications at the London School of
Economics (since 2001) and was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London (1998-2002).
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