NESTING GROUPS
Saturday 22 July 2017
Nesting Groups combined art and ecology in a creative game of resource distribution and sustainable living. Through processes of making and negotiating, the complex interconnections between communication, cooperation and competition were explored in an attempt to protect local interests whilst maintaining diversity and balance across the ecosystem. Nesting groups was a game of two parts, one inspired by ecological systems (devised by Dimitra Georgopoulou, Laura Cappelatti, and Amanda Fry), the other exploring biomimetic design systems (devised by Josh Greenfield). Combined, the games invited participants to explore resource utilisation, decision-making and problem solving in groups through creative building activities.
Film by Julie Dusuel
CROWD CONTROL
In July 2017, a team of researchers and practitioners came together to embark upon a month-long situated research residency based at Arebyte Gallery in Hackney Wick, East London. Connecting visual, digital and performance art practices with contemporary scientific research, law and urban design, the project - Crowd Control – explored the mechanisms of collective behaviour through observation, simulation and experimentation.
The project was commissioned by Arebyte as part of their 2017 Arts Council England funded programme on ‘systems of control’, inviting artist Heather Barnett to take a month long residency at the gallery. Extending the invitation, Heather was joined by Dr Andrew King, Dr Ines Fürtbauer, Dr Daniel Strömbom, Dimitra Georgopoulou, Laura Cappelatti and Amanda Fry (behavioural scientists at Swansea University with whom Heather is currently Leverhulme Artist in Residence) and by Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (law, spatial justice); Liu Yang (urban design); Josh Greenfield (swarm systems); Jamie Harper (theatre, game design); Julius Colwyn (art, design), Annarita Papeschi & Vincent Nowak (urban design, crowdsourcing), Melanie Phillips (interactive theatre) and Kira Wainstein (project assistant).
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