30th NOVEMBER TIME: Italy: 9 to 12 AM / Melbourne: 7 to 10 PM / London: 8 to 11 AM / Beijing: 4 to 7 PM
Design Dreaming is an experimental approach using social dreaming to refine and explore design questions. SDIN has an interest in teaching and learning about social dreaming practice. So, to demonstrate design dreaming, we invite participants to share and explore dreams to help design what a learning space for social dreaming might look and feel like.
The experience will involve sharing dreams via email before the session, at which an initial creative response will be offered by the facilitators Nuala, Michelle and David, followed by a matrix, quickening, and design development.
If you would like to participate, please register via email at info@socialdreaminginternational.net by 25 October. We will share information about how to share your dreams once registration closes.
Free for SDIN members. 30€ Euros for non-members.
Facilitators: Michelle Boyde is a designer, curator and Artistic Director of Design Tasmania, who has been social dreaming for over 15 years as a tool for collective reflection. With collaborator David Patman, she co-founded the Unconscious Collective to experiment with social dreaming in artistic and creative settings. In 2018, Michelle initiated ‘design dreaming’ as a counterpoint and playful critique of ‘design thinking’ with a gathering 40 women to collectively explore challenges in design through shared dreaming. The project culminated in a conference and social dreaming matrix convened with Susan Long.
Dr Nuala Dent is a leadership and culture change consultant whose practice weaves together systems psychodynamics and art-based methods. In this session, Nuala will offer associative drawing as a way of deepening the social dreaming matrix and opening new possibilities for collective insight.
Dr David Patman is a creative leader, socio-analyst and strategic researcher, with a strong interest in applied social dreaming. He currently works as head of policy and projects at Tourism Tasmania, and is a visiting research fellow at the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics.
