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SUMMARY:A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations: Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Overview \n\n\n\nA creative launch of a creative book about creative collaborations: celebrate the publication from the Binks Hub and Outwith at the Library. \n\n\n\nThis is part of a co-creation day\, celebrating participatory and creative forms of research practices hosted by The Binks Hub and Outwith. To explore and sign up for other events\, view the collection here. \n\n\n\nJoin us for the launch of A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations\, an exciting new resource for people who would like to collaborate ethically with artists but aren’t sure where to start. Compered by Susan Morrison\, stand-up comedian\, broadcaster and one of the co-authors of the book\, this launch will be much more creative and fun than the average academic event (Susan is really very funny!). \n\n\n\nAttendees will receive a free hard copy of the book and invited by Susan and her co-authors Rhiannon Bull\, Jean McEwan and Jimmy Turner to engage with some of the creative exercises using drawing\, poetry\, sculpture and games that they have developed in the Field Guide to help people conceptualise\, design and ethically carry out collaborative work with artists. The team will share stories about the genesis\, philosophy\, and process of making the Field Guide\, and attendees will be invited to share their own plans\, experiences and wisdom about the role of creative collaborations in research. The event will also be the launch of the brand new Outwith Field Guides series\, of which A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations is the first example\, and we will be joined by Nel Coleman from the University Library. Nel will introduce the series\, and offer tantalising details of the other Field Guides which are currently in development. \n\n\n\nJoin us for an interactive\, informative and fun look at working with creatives. \n\n\n\nThe event will take place in room 2.55 in Edinburgh Futures Institute. You do not need an access card to join us. \n\n\n\nGetting Involved \n\n\n\nThe team will be inviting attendees to have a go at some of the creative activities in the Field Guide. These have been designed to be as accessible as possible\, regardless of artistic experience and confidence. We will invite attendees to share their work with others\, but there will be no pressure at all to do so. All we ask is that you come with a sense of playfulness\, curiosity\, and willingness to have a go. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout our Partners \n\n\n\nNel Coleman is based at the University of Edinburgh Library\, and runs Outwith: Participatory Research at the Library. Their role is to support any research that opens the doors to wider involvement in the process; from citizen science to co-creation. Find out more about Outwith and what they do: outwith.ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nRhiannon Bull is a writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction\, an illustrator\, and a painter based in Edinburgh. Rhiannon is currently undertaking PhD research at the University of Glasgow using creative writing to explore climate emotions in Scotland – www.rhiannonbull.com \n\n\n\nJean McEwan is a visual and participatory artist who has worked with communities and research projects for 20+ years. Based near Bradford but also working nationally\, she facilitates collage\, zine-making and creative journaling as means to explore meaning\, stories and messages with people – www.jeanmcewan.com \n\n\n\nSusan Morrison has been an MC at The Stand Comedy club since the day it opened\, and she has taken to the stage in clubs from Bournemouth to Inverness. She is a writer\, broadcaster and comedian with two grown-up children and a very patient husband. She is passionate about creating new ways for researchers and academics to bring their work to the public through her work with the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas\, the Bright Club and The Provocateurs. In 2025\, Napier University celebrated her achievements in public engagement by granting her an honorary doctorate. \n\n\n\nJimmy Turner is a woodworker\, sculptor\, curator and anthropologist who works as a researcher for the Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh. They concentrate on designing and developing research and arts projects with community organisations\, through which community members can explore their curiosities and priorities through art and creativity.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-field-guide-to-artist-researcher-collaborations-book-launch/
LOCATION:Research Suite – 6th Floor\, University of Edinburgh Main Library\, 30 George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LJ
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SUMMARY:Day of Co-Creation
DESCRIPTION:The Binks Hub invites you to celebrate creative and participatory research practices. Join for one event\, or for the whole day!  \n\n\n\nThe Day of Co-Creation is co-badged with The School of Scottish Studies Archives\, Poverty Truth Community\, Outwith at the University of Edinburgh Library\, and the Binks Hub.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/day-of-co-creation/
LOCATION:Research Suite – 6th Floor\, University of Edinburgh Main Library\, 30 George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LJ
CATEGORIES:Book launch,Community Event,Talk/Discussion,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of Experimental Times by Hemangini Gupta\, Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics with a book presentation by the author followed by responses from: \n\n\n\n\nJanaki Srinivasan\, Associate Professor\, Digital South Asian Studies\, Uni of Oxford\n\n\n\nRahul Rao\, Reader in International Political Thought\, Uni of St Andrews\n\n\n\nAlex Taylor\, Reader in Design Informatics\, Uni of Edinburgh\n\n\n\n\nExperimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of “backend” IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation. The book journeys alongside the migrant workers\, technologists\, and entrepreneurs who shape and survive the dreams of a “Startup India” knitted through office work\, at networking meetings and urban festivals\, and across sites of leisure in the city. Tracking techno-futures that involve automation and impending precarity\, Hemangini Gupta details the everyday forms of experimentation\, care\, and friendship that sustain and reproduce life and labor in India’s current economy. \n\n\n\nA reception will follow the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/book-launch-experimental-times-startup-capitalism-and-feminist-futures-in-india/
LOCATION:Violet Laidlaw Room (6.02)\, Chrystal Macmillan Building\, 15a George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LD
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