People Power Exhibition 2016: WE- DOM

Exhibition Opening
Thu 3 Nov, 4 – 7pm
FREE, please register here

Exhibition
4 – 5 Nov, 12 – 6pm

Workshop
Build Your Own Flag
Join the artists and build your own flags for WE-DOM
Sat 5 Nov, 12 – 4pm
SPACE Mare Street
FREE

WE- DOM
Constructing ideas on migrant communities

This exhibition examines the challenges faced by migrants setting up new communities. Girls at secondary schools in Hackney and Tower Hamlets employed hacking, technology and hypothetical methods of living to reference and celebrate the freedom to rethink how society functions, particularly for migrant communities.

(1) Designers Adam Blencowe and Thor ter Kulve worked with students of The Petchey Academy, Hackney, to explore alternative living scenarios. They built a neo-Kibbo Kift encampment using found materials and simple electronics.

(2) Working with designers Rike Glaser and Namuun Zimmermann, the students of Bow School, Tower Hamlets, were asked to test ideas around the question “How would you construct a welcoming community in which locals and migrants exchange and embrace diverse cultures?”

(3) The students of Clapton Girl‘s Academy, Hackney, designed child specific interventions, such as safe spaces for play and rest, to create a greater emphasis on the unique needs of children in refugee camps.

People Power brings STEM subjects alive through art and creativity. This, the seventh annual People Power programme, is designed to address national statistics highlighting the ‘girl gap’ in technology and engineering.

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