The Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands has formed a new research centre titled ‘Centre for Deep Napping & Thought’ which will examine the imaginal space exposed by the in between / threshold space of sleep. More information coming soon.
Be Our Guest, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys
29 June 2013 – 04 September 2013
During the summer of 2013 a new and alternative Bed and Breakfast will open its doors at Oriel Davies for local residents and visitors to Newtown. ‘Guests’ will encounter a number of objects, sounds and experiences featured within the newly found accommodation.
Featuring work from the Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands.
image taken on site visit to Rhôd, April 2013
Future Nature Culture
Preview 26th May – exhibition runs until 1st June 2013
featuring work from the Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands
more info at http://therhod.wordpress.com/
Connected to Bridging the Gaps Residency at Swansea University, promoting and facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration.
Call for Researchers at Swansea University of any discipline and level:
The Time Travelling Deep Sea Exploration Vessel, chartered by the Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands, is an exciting new development in time travel and future preservation.
Aboard the vessel will be housed the most significant, dynamic and challenging representations of research necessary for the benefit of the future. The vessel will also act as a living and working area for up to 100 people.
Researchers are invited to offer suggestions for what they think is needed for the future. This can range from specimens, certain kinds of knowledge or particular kinds of technology. Maybe you want to suggest what sort of spaces are needed, the different functions of the vessel, the material it is made out of, or the kind of living and interactive spaces required for the people aboard. It is probable that your suggestion will be connected to your current research.
It may be that your suggestion is at risk of not existing in the future and so putting it aboard the vessel will guarantee its future existence. Or perhaps your suggestion does not yet exist yet as it may be, for example, bound by time and space or gravity, but please be free and experimental with your ideas in relation to what you think we need for the future as we at the Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands are committed to making it happen.
There will also be an on board library and so we also invite participants to suggest a book for the library, this can be of any discipline or genre.
There are no weight or size restrictions on board, and indeed, your suggestion may be something that is invisible, but everything will be accommodated for. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity (unless you are already experienced in the art of time travel and we have met before.)
Please send your suggestion / diagram / drawing / notes / rough sketch/ alongside your book title with your name and department via Internal Mail to:
Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands
c/o Bridging the Gaps
Singleton Abbey
Please note: the diagram above is only a suggestion of a layout. Your input will help shape the final outcome of the vessel.
Suggestions for the Time Travelling Deep Sea Exploration Vessel will close at the end of March 2013. A final version will be made public soon after. (Please also be aware that we are currently awaiting further funding in order for the building of the Time Travelling Deep Sea Exploration Vessel to commence)
Lion | Fragment | Bell
at Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University
17th – 23rd Sept
Open daily between 10am – 6pm
For Fragment | Lion | Bell the Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands will share recent and ongoing explorations. Using the Richard Hamilton Building as its base for the duration of the IAM Festival*, the Institute will create a shifting space that will be activated by interventions and live actions, offering an opportunity to enter the world of Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands.
Please check the website for any event times and for more information imaginedfuturesunknownlands.org
imaginedfuturesunknownlands@gmail.com
* the IAM Festival takes place in Oxford from 17th – 23rd September. Please check the website for more details: iamsept2012.tumblr.com
From September the Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands will be Artist in Residence for Bridging the Gaps at Swansea University. The Institute will engage with the research at Swansea University, developing a new interdisciplinary project. Updates on the research undertaken will be available on this site.
