The Anthill - A Fragmented View of the Designed Beyond
The Anthill - A Fragmented View of the Designed Beyond
The Anthill is an intermission / / to relate and display how Uroborians design in these troubling times when everyone designs - in different ways - their own existence. This will happen in a virtual space (MozillaHubs) and a chat room (Discord) that Uroborians can fill with their own pictures, objects, gifs or conversations of what, how and where they design.
The Anthill will be initiated by the authors during the festival Opening program and continue to exist as a floating event throughout the festival duration.
Wonderful things happen in the liminal spaces of meatspace festivals and conferences. When moving from one event to another, sipping coffee or wine, pausing to mingle, or gathering in a celebratory mood at the end of the day...
The Anthill is a liminal virtual space where Uroboros pilgrims can find themselves ”in-between” the Uroboros Festival. The Anthill is a Discord server and a Mozilla Hubs virtual environment. Initially, the Anthill will be only a scaffolding with prompts waiting for Uroborians to enter and fill it with their own pictures, objects, gifs or conversations of what, how and where they design. When Uroboros ends, the ants might have a chance to look at one fragmented, incomplete, and glitchy Anthill of their own.
Designers are gods. Designers are cogs.
Designers are queens and drones.
Requirements for participants
To attend the Anthill initiation, please register for the festival Opening session. You will need to have the Zoom.us application for video streaming with free account to attend the Anthill initiation. Please check your Zoom setting before the event starts - https://zoom.us/test.
After the initiation, you can join the Anthill anytime during the festival, by logging into Discord and Mozilla Hubs:
- Join Discord https://discord.com/register (it is free, but you need to leave an email address)
- Check your email for a message from Discord. Click “Verify Email” to activate your Discord account.
- AFTER verifying your Discord account, click here https://discord.gg/uhJ47MU
- Follow the instructions in the #instructions channel
- Relate &// play &// discover &// criticize or just hang around.
Enrique Encinas & Robb Mitchell
Enrique Encinas did electrical engineering in Spain, semiconductor tech in Taiwan, a PhD in Interaction design in the UK and now does design, research and teaching in Denmark. He has briefly supported artists in Medialab Prado (Madrid) and technical systems in Vodafone Spain. Some of his design research work was exhibited in the Berlaymont Building of the EU Commission and in the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). He currently works @ the Human Centered Computing group in Aalborg University.
Robb Mitchell is associate professor of social interaction design at the University of Southern Denmark in Kolding, and a visiting lecturer in the applied psychology department at Beijing Normal University. A graduate of Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, with a PhD in facilitation, his research and practice develop new forms of interpersonal engagement. This has ranged from icebreaking interactive furniture and mechanical installations (Glasgow International), body-swapping audiovisual interventions (covered by WIRED), playful digital-physical experiences (Pixelache Festival at Kiasma Museum, Playful Arts Festival in 's-Hertogenbosch) and interdisciplinary event curation (e.g. The Chateau with Franz Ferdinand, and The Upgrade! for New Media Scotland).