Are you a human who would like to learn how to share your knowledge with other humans? Do you work at an organization that would like to integrate workshops into your programming? Are you curious about the secret philosophies and logistics of Machine Project’s workshop model? Or perhaps you are bored, lonely, and looking for free doughnuts on a Sunday afternoon?
If you fit any of these categories, please join Machine Project’s Executive Director (Mark Allen) and Operations Manager and workshop coordinator (Lucas Wrench) for an afternoon discussion on the creation, planning and execution of educational programs as a form of experimental curation. We will begin with an intensive brainstorming exercise where each participant comes up with 50 topics they have some minimal knowledge of (crochet, escaping from handcuffs, satellite design, napping, etc). We will then take selections from the topics and discuss how to develop them into workshops which are satisfying, surprising, and welcoming to the public.
Ideas to be discussed will include what are the different forms of workshops and why people participate in them, how to deal with different styles and speeds of learning, the role of empathy in design, and why workshops are an interesting form to work in as an artist, curator, or organizer.
