https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/work daily 1.0 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532272190142-K2GN5TQ3U41XGDCJCXSM/CHOREOGRAPHY_02.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532273680418-LIWC6HGOLV8HECU7PD7V/IMG_6701_WEB650_PhotoSNewland.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532260787462-ZRKRN97552EADM3UJVFN/theatre+box+for+finals.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532275160429-BLHL5TS0LCLUDM9A0KGE/PERSPECTIVE03.jpg Work - Storehouse 01 Storehouse 01 is a physical / digital archive dedicated to magazine media. The concept acts as a new category of library. By housing an extensive collection of national and international design publications, this space functions as an active and participatory museum for magazine media. The idea of this archive is based on providing readers / visitors the opportunity to collect, collate, assemble media information from different historical and contemporary media sources. Every article from each publication is compiled into a central database. From this database, visitors digitally select and compile articles of interest or for specific research to be reproduced as an individual printed collection. The hard copy journals are incorporated into specially designed, flexible display units. This malleable shelving can be composed, arranged and re-arranged into museum displays. 2008 Old Carlton & United Brewery site, Cnr Abercrombie & Carlton Streets, Chippendale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532276988914-DJER2VFOVFJHYI2H3264/amplified+body+works2+FINAL.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532273908089-VRMHMLQUEAB343CFAB2C/CRINOLINES+01.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532445004292-9XIHZBGM5E28CA79Q8RC/Website_ABOUT-page-image_2400px.jpg Work Deconstruction and analysis of the EU Commission Application Grant for which the International exhibition Shared History was developed - analysis of key premise and word use by both EU Commission and Färgfabrieken as the main applicant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1630152095937-4UZAVZMEAJMXUU78X7EI/L1050027.jpg Work - Wonderment Domastication A site-specific spatial & embodied research that centres lived experiences of ‘domastic’ occupation — in which rituals of the house are queered or re-interpreted, domestication becoming ‘domastication’ - a chewing up or mangling of domestic space rather than an adherence to it. The work Wonderment Domastication is grounded in processes of mapping domesticities and design anthropology. It focuses on the collection of sensitive data about intimate or quotidian domestic routines or rituals, captured in film vignettes. The vignettes articulate temporal moments of domastic occupation — situations that destabilize notions of regular spatial arrangement or normative use, whether through the conditions of the space itself or through the manner of occupancy (vice versa). Spatial information is re-traced into a scaled scenography. The vignettes are deconstructed through techniques of site writing, thick description and movement analysis — which slows down or stretches body-space dynamics to focus on behaviour in context. Such processes re-formulate the vignettes through narrative and performance — which functions here as a research tool and a lens through which to encounter the domestic. Thinking about domestic space as scenography and movements and behaviour as choreography. This performative research draws our attention to the ways in which bodily practices produce meaning and have the power to reveal the active, social construction of domestic reality. Wonderment Domastication becomes a site of convergence that entangles embodied, material and conceptual moments of disorientation and dis-identification together to reveal the reflexive relationships between identity and the space one inhabits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532099634540-U7JTZEC3CQPXH8NN7NPO/DE_SIGN__FrameAnalysis_03.gif Work - Frame #89 Nov/Dec 2012 - Frame #95 Nov/Dec 2013 Mediated Bodies* investigates systems of design as they relate to representations of gender and identity. It considers how design presents conservative systems of gender representation through the vehicle of the media. The media is interpreted through its production of material artefacts, namely that of the magazine—which is seen to contribute to the establishment and reinforcing of gender norms, on a conceptual level, through the imagery it reproduces. These media narratives are analysed through one specific case study—the aim being to analyse gendered meanings inherent in specific representations and explore the condition of the ‘mediated body’ in design: in other words, the body as it is captured, effected and transformed by the vehicle of the media. The study focuses on representations of the body found in seven consecutive issues of Frame Magazine (numbers 89-95). The findings of the study are seen to initiate a shift in behaviour by the magazine on account of the feedback provided, leading to a change in the production of gendered material from this source. Therefore, it could be claimed that this study has exercised an influence over the concepts of gender materialised by the magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532278207224-BFHIRBGOHRQTZF1GR1ED/_dsc6781_Ilco+Kemmere.jpg Work - New Material Award | Atelier Clerici, Milano Curator: Het Nieuwe Instituut | April 2017 | Atelier Clerici, Milano IT | Video: Lody Aeckerlin Spatial designers: Gabriel A. Maher & Studio Raphaël Coutin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532277457283-C8BGH6FYHE4QGSX20GDX/jwk_7806_0_Photo+JW+Kaldenbach.jpg Work - Tijdelijk Mode Museum | Temporary Fashion Museum Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut | Spatial design by EventArchitectuur, Gabriel .A. Maher, Lucas Munoz, Raphael Coutin, and Studio Makkink & Bey, which detailed the complete transformation of the HNI into the Temporary Fashion Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532262480098-C159Z6HKKGS7LKCIC2LH/An+Empy+Orchestra_karaoke+sequence.jpg Work - An Empty Orchestra | Salone del Mobile, Milan Based on fragments from the Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano website, Empty Orchestra is an absurd script composed of object lists and object names from Salone product libraries: adjectives, nouns, verbs and chronological word use, with, words, phrases and loaded expressions associated with design. With a backing track of ‘easy listening’ sound used on the Salone website (2016), Empty Orchestra is performed through spoken word, concrete poetry and karaoke, live within the context of the fair. The offcial Salone del Mobile website hosts all promotional material and facilitative communication for the fair. The website is an archive charting both technical and emotional information relating to the ‘design fair’, including press releases, interactive maps, brand catalogues, product libraries, inspirations, advertisements, interviews as well as exhibition, visitor, exhibitor and media information. Its extensive display of materials mediates a kaleidoscope of consumer goods through design ideologies and “novel concepts for living”. The website demonstrates a dichotomy between design ideologies and its general output as consumer products. Endless scenographies showcase props for living (table, bed, container) surrounded by linguistic value beyond their form, such as “ethical and social commitment,” “design of the future,” “improve people’s quality of life” and “the most meaningful and profound issues of contemporary.” By using fragmentary and incomplete material clippings the existence of mutually incompatible and antithetical meanings can occur. It creates a skewed, slightly mocking narrative of the Salone’s marketing ideology. A satirical comment on the rhetoric and disinformation of commodity culture and consumption. Note: This was performed live and in a participatory way with an audience / consumers / journalists etc. This text/soundscape is to be performed live, using the tools of the tools of a DJ, dual vocals and large-scale visuals; a hybrid between performance lecture and DJ set. This work was developed for Fictional Journal Propaganda Issue 02. It specifically relates to the Salone Del Mobile context and mediation. In collaboration with designer Isabel Mager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532270157519-YOIU4J1B3IGIZ57Q5L8R/Bot+List+Film+.png Work - Dezeen Bot List | Salone del Mobile, Milan This work is a data analysis of titles, comments and images mediated from the Design section of the website dezeen.com. One years’ worth of content from April ’16 to April ‘17 was scraped and re-composed into the Dezeen Bot List, using machine learning, a technique that can teach an algorithmic bot a specific language. The Dezeen Bot has been taught the language typically used by users of the Dezeen comments section. The resulting text might be strange, fragmented and ‘disinformative though similar in style, tone and substance to the original comments. Dezeen Bot List references an ironic twist on the Dezeen Hot List. In the design section of Dezeen, the contrast between highly curated articles/titles and uncontrolled, blunt and often vicious user’s comments – sporadically appearing here in there on the platform – sparked our interest. We wanted to explore the ‘backend’ of this curated journalistic language, next to the emotive tone of comments through data analysis. This allowed us to reflect on editorial patterns adjacent to commenter behaviour in an archival, quantitative or fact-based manner. Working together with programmer Jayson Haebich, this backend language was collected, deconstructed and rearranged in chronological order and positioned in scrolling lists of nouns, names, verbs and adjectives. Through this chronological arrangement of words, from most used to least used, the dominant semantic ideology of titles and comments unfolds. Words can be highlighted to appear again in the context of either the title or the comment which provides an analytical tool for observation. www.dezeenbotlist.com Collaboration with Anastasia Kubrak, Isabel Mager and programmer Jayson Haebich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532441233461-MOFB2FVG5TF7X6H8H8VY/IMAGE+5+%26+7+2-1_small.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532537900681-FC8IVENTDOYVC5BPGCW8/Orebro_Timeline+Podium-Rhetoric.compressed+copy.jpg Work An ongoing symbolic and visual research in collaboration with political scientist Daniel Urey and designer Isabel Mager into the physical and performative mechanisms of the podium; the formal site upon which a speech act takes place to address ‘imagined communities’ (Anderson, 1983). By acknowledging the central historical role of podia in the communication and cultivation of ideologies, social principles, and cultural values, we articulate key moments and sites within in the culturalisation of Europe. The research aims to deconstruct systems of meaning embedded in a programming of the podia as an historical and contemporary phenomenon and considers how repeated patterns of design are used to articulate power. Within this framework, the body is central; itself interpreted as a technology for knowledge production through gesture & posture, orientation & action, voice & the art of rhetoric. Sign & symbol, design & technology, gender & performance are punctuated as spatiotemporal logics and as social orientation devices bound to this site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532280395978-QSB056MV8052USP6NBLG/DSC_3093_2500px.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532270486374-DBAYA3MMTUCPJA8PRY6P/Disegno_51_52.jpg Work Disegno #15, Gendered Objects collaboration with Disegno Magazine, with editors Oli Stratford & Kristina Rapacki & Philosopher, Nina Power, In collaboration with Disegno Magazine Words: Nina Power | Montages: Gabriel Maher Image maker’s note: While dissecting the press release images of objects referenced in the text, I was particularly struck by the absence of the body in the photography. These objects were mostly center-aligned, singular, rather lonesome and captured without human interaction. Deconstructing these object images made it possible to locate lines of desire in the fragments. Remixing these fragments, brought them together again in unexpected ways and produced a certain performativity. At the same time, this process skewed and exaggerated their original reading. The new arrangements and object combinations started to present with ‘camp’ sensibilities and elements of personification. This transformation summoned the aesthetic techniques of Montage and Drag and reveled in reproductions of suitably dragged-objects and images. The montage fragments directly reference specific objects and moments described in the text, so the final images are bound to these delicious textual-sexual descriptions – Gabriel .A. Maher Essay: Gendered Objects pp. 46-56 Writer’s note: It struck me while writing this piece just how functionally androgynous much design is, and how more could be that way too. I thought a lot about the bicycle’s role in the emancipation of women and the way in which, while we may laugh at objects that are pointlessly gendered, we don’t always think about the hidden gendered qualities of objects. Unless we use a language that genders everything – and even then we might forget – Nina Power Chamber – chambernyc.com De Castelli – decastelli.it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532103634992-XM4GDIKIP7OKUHN6XIO3/kyle+tryhorn_7F0A6392.jpg Work - Collective Enunciation “_________ ” Installation & performance, Onomatopee 150.2 / NEST Project 2017, Eindhoven. In this collaborative work, designer Gabriel A. Maher, designer and social worker Ro Perez Gayo and multidisciplinary artist Carly Rose Bedford elaborate on the relationship of feminism to the collective regimes of enunciation that produce it. If we look from this perspective to the word feminism we understand how, as a word, it can transform its own conditions, function as a disruptive agent and incite analysis of any condition or context it is placed within. Recognising it as a composite term, means to embrace its complexity. It houses a multiplicity of positions, approaches, interpretations, histories and subjectivities. All of these positions are there within the word. Once I cross into that space, how do/can/must/may/ought 'I' move/relate/think/interact/feel? And how would I describe it? In order to achieve this, Maher, Perez and Rose speculate on how setting the listening conditions prior to the act of speech can generate new forms of community and collectivity. By approaching the word Feminism as a technology, they look towards how this process can generate self-reflection and invite the word feminism to listen to itself in a queer and intersectional feminist framework. As much as a physical exhibition, this work exists as a methodology that attempts to reflect and act upon the collectivity that feminism as a word connotes. It contemplates collectivity, the act of listening and knowledge production. This process and outcome reflects dialogues of urgency or irreverence, analysis and reflection that cycled within a collective of people each unified by an investment in feminism. “___________ ” is an invitation to explore how our individual positions and actions relate to the collective arrangements we belong to through the technology of the word and consequently, through the act of listening. A network of 26 feminist voices transmit production design of speakers by Kiki Mager photos: Kyle Tryhorn & Daantje Bons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1772213967220-FOPLJVFDZB7WHK8EEI7Z/Screenshot%2B2021-02-26%2Bat%2B12.06.png Work - Infrastructures for Objection Infrastructures for Objection examines how urban and media infrastructures organise contemporary public space. Developed in response to the growing convergence of digital media, algorithmic technologies and urban environments, the work investigates how systems of information, circulation and visibility structure everyday experience in the city. Rather than only critiquing the political or cultural consequences of these transformations, the project approaches infrastructure itself as a site of design. Through spatial analysis and experimental design methods, it explores how the material and technical systems that organise urban space might be reconfigured to support more critical, reflective and participatory forms of engagement. As the research proposes, design and spatial infrastructures reproduce categories of identity and the body, orienting behaviour and perception in particular ways. The project therefore distinguishes between the material elements that order behaviour and the processes through which such order is produced, opening these systems to interrogation and redesign. The research informed the chapter “A Glitch in the System: Deconstructing JCDecaux | Decoding Suitsupply” published in Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space (Routledge, 2020). Format Spatial and visual investigations, digital tools Credits Gabriel A. Maher Ro Pérez Gayo Support Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (NL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532271714622-0VECUUJRZKM8JY8RCQH6/Untitled-1-01.jpg Work - Transformation Marathon #15 Serpentine Galleries, London Transformation Marathon was a 24-hour public programme at the Serpentine Galleries bringing together artists, writers, scientists, designers and philosophers to explore how transformation occurs across cultural, political and technological systems. The programme addressed topics including transgender politics, environmental adaptation, micro-politics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence and the evolving role of the art institution. Held across a continuous 24-hour format, the event marked the tenth anniversary of the Serpentine Marathon series. For the 2015 edition, Gabriel A. Maher designed the scenography and stage environment for the programme. The spatial design translated the theme of transformation into a layered media landscape, situating the speaking body within circulating systems of text, image and information. Operating simultaneously as stage, interface and spatial frame, the scenography explored how bodies, knowledge and media become entangled within contemporary cultural infrastructures. Maher was an invited speaker within the official curatorial programme, presenting their work Mediated Bodies and Technologies for Seductive Criticism, which examine how media systems frame and produce cultural understandings of the body. The presentation was followed by a conversation with design critic Alice Rawsthorn, joined by social innovator Hilary Cottam and designer Christien Meindertsma, addressing questions of transformation in relation to personal identity. Format / Materials Event scenography and stage design; public talk Credits Gabriel A. Maher — Concept, Scenography & Stage Design; Speaker Curatorial Team Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Ben Vickers Location Serpentine Galleries, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1666362454785-VM9E2KSMATUEU4W337BV/TSC_Desire+Paths_2020.jpg Work - An interactive WebGL archive mapping the cultural patterns and logics through which bodies were staged and circulated in platform culture (2014–2017) Technologies for Seductive Criticism proposes an aesthetically driven methodology for analysing platform media, developed by Gabriel A. Maher and programmed by Jayson Haebich. Working with scraped content from DazedDigital.com (2014–2017), the project algorithmically removes image backgrounds to isolate bodies and quantifies accompanying text to analyse linguistic emphasis and repetition. Through automated montage and linguistic extraction, bodies are reorganised into categories of posture, gesture, proximity, and scale, revealing how identity is positioned within digital culture. The project was developed in dialogue with cultural critic Jefferson Hack and activated in collaboration with Dazed Media, London. Credits Gabriel A. Maher (Concept | Design | Methodology) Jayson Haebich (Programming | Software Development) Michele Vescio (Sound Design) Dazed Media (Content Collaboration) Materials / Format WebGL environment Scraped editorial archive (2014–2017) Algorithmic montage Support Supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (NL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532017901987-TVJZUVECMTZ5O3CDE4P1/DE___SIGN+highres_Gabriel_2015.jpg Work - De_sign De_sign is a performance-installation that examines how design systems orient the body and reproduce gendered behaviour. Combining movement analysis, garments, and spatial props, the work stages a series of directed actions in which the body negotiates objects that structure posture, balance, and orientation. Through these interactions the body becomes disaligned—skewed, unstable, or off-balance—revealing how seemingly natural gestures are learned, repeated, and culturally encoded. The work investigates how design and media representations produce gender norms through cultural artefacts. Through an act of DE___SIGNing, the project dissects the visual and spatial codes that organise the mediated body, extracting and reassembling them into an abstract vocabulary of gendered signs. These reconstructed artefacts are activated through performance, allowing the body to rehearse alternative orientations and positions. A central component of the work is The Act of Sitting, which examines the culturally coded differences in how gendered bodies occupy the same posture. Garments and props guide the performer into positions associated with gendered meaning, exposing them as learned behaviours while opening the possibility of new movement vocabularies. Credits Concept, Research, Design: Gabriel A. Maher Film: Kimon Kodossis Movement: Floriane Misslin, Olle Lundin, Naomi Jansen Format / Materials Performance installation with garment series; block screen-printed textiles on linen; custom garments; wooden chair prop; film documentation and movement choreography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1765880438126-RDMRPG3QAI1KYBCEIGKC/Screenshot%2B2022-10-21%2Bat%2B15.11.55.png Work - Cities on Loop: Digital Out-of-Home (DooH) Media and the Contestation of Urban Space: Dynamics of Spatial and Data Justice. This visual and spatial investigation looks at how Digital Out-of-Home (DooH) media infrastructures reshape urban spaces through algorithmic, geospatial and temporal coordination. Through technographic approaches (Bucher, 2017), embodied spatial analysis and software ethnography, the research analyses how DooH produces audiences, governs visibility and embeds commercial and political interests into the social and material fabric of the city. Extending beyond infrastructural logics, the research examines the embodied geographies of audience encounters, explores industry operations and algorithmic decision-making, while mapping DooH’s geographic variability in Amsterdam. Together, these inquiries demonstrate how DooH contributes to urban inequality dynamics, situating it within debates on deep mediatisation (Hepp, 2020), datafication and spatial justice. The research is linked to the themes and insights developed in "A Glitch in the System" and "Infrastructures for Objection and Participation," activated in collaboration with Ro Pérez Gayo and expands upon my engagement with a critical spatial practice that analyses systems of representation and orientation. Cities on Loop develops over the course of four years as part of my PhD research trajectory with the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) University of Amsterdam. The research is supervised by Stefania Milan, Professor of Critical Data Studies and Dr Davide Beraldo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1666340039245-GUZ3Q44KT6XBIV2INSEE/Expo+Baltan+LR26.jpg Work - Infrastructures for Participation examines projection as both architectural medium and speculative device, tracing how media-architectural systems shape participation and social relations Situated within the redevelopment of Strijp-S, the work explores how automated data collection, algorithmic decision-making, and remote spatial control structure everyday urban experience. Operating at the intersection of queer-feminist spatial inquiry and media architecture, it questions how citizens might engage with, contest, and reconfigure these infrastructural systems from within. The research materialised as an installation and publication. The installation combined large-scale projections with urban construction materials, staging the aesthetics of redevelopment to foreground processes of spatial transformation and mediated control. Credits Gabriel A. Maher (Concept | Research | Design) Ro Pérez Gayo (Concept | Research | Design) Materials / Format Multi-media installation Urban construction materials Research publication Support Baltan Laboratories Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (NL) Location Strijp-S, Eindhoven https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/studies-in-material-thinking-mediated-bodies daily 0.75 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532529434876-9AVOSV61HVBR364OI1T1/Cover_2016.jpg Studies in Material Thinking | Mediated Bodies* https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532529434876-9AVOSV61HVBR364OI1T1/Cover_2016.jpg Studies in Material Thinking | Mediated Bodies* https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532529788859-KPEIUBIYHUV3RO64CF3W/Studies+in+Material+Thinking_Gabriel+A+Maher+1-1.jpg Studies in Material Thinking | Mediated Bodies* - Studies in Material Thinking Journal | Volume 15 Download: DE_SIGN: Revealing the 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in Material Thinking | Mediated Bodies* https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532529933228-W5JQWQ794CAJOWSPOWGH/Studies+in+Material+Thinking_Gabriel+A+Maher+20-1.jpg Studies in Material Thinking | Mediated Bodies* https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/from-space-to-our-place daily 0.75 2021-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1630676864478-919P9KZ9HX6BCZ3RDCYV/Coordinated%2BActions-02.jpg Co-ordinated Actions - Co—Ordinated Actions Co-produced with Designer & Social Worker, Roberto Pérez Gayo Social Design Master, Design Academy Eindhoven https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1630676864478-919P9KZ9HX6BCZ3RDCYV/Coordinated%2BActions-02.jpg Co-ordinated Actions - Co—Ordinated Actions Co-produced with Designer & Social Worker, Roberto Pérez Gayo Social Design Master, Design Academy Eindhoven https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1539971866711-YKC9O3XR00KK80MZOXB5/Screen+Shot+2018-10-19+at+19.53.50.png Co-ordinated Actions ENTER: ‘take a position on the line’ 29 Bodies entering the space directed by floor graphic (line) CAMERA: view from outside, bodies disappearing in space Beat, rhythm in space (pause) INSTRUCTIONS: explore space as a line (jump, stop, direction, proximity, points of view, duration) BREAK LINE + mark positions DIALOGUE / reflection FRAME/CONTEXT ‘line’: reveal, agency, reflect, connotations (questions) INSTRUCTIONS:REPEAT (line) arrange, orientation, distance, position, line, choice, group + individual BREAK LINE + mark positions DIALOGUE / INTRO Approach to space: performance, action, body https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1539981336110-VXOXAGIN598G9Z8BB7K9/image-asset.jpeg Co-ordinated Actions 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1536227306490-JJE2DUEUCURZUY65NTJ1/Coordinated+Actions-02.png Co-ordinated Actions https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/futures-of-peace-justice-icc-den-hague daily 0.75 2018-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1534498928600-IR65UKRPEDWBY9KS41IH/Screen+Shot+2018-03-25+at+18.52.26.png Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague - Spatial & Performative Logics | Negotiating Systems of Power through Design and it’s Affects (2018) This is an investigation of Interior and procedural elements of International Criminal Courts. An attempt to deconstruct and decode the physical and performative program of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague. This involves mapping and understanding the historical cannons of International Court spaces – Nuremberg, ICTY, ICTR+ - to identify patterns within the spatial and performative order of these legal spaces. This historical line is interpreted in relation to the ICC. ICC is a loaded site where structures of international law are materialised and enacted. It operates upon a set of conditions, relationships, co-ordinated actions and physical systems of social, cultural and political orientation. The court space is an analogue and digital platform of power - not a neutral space – bodies are directed, organised, arranged and positioned within this scheme and subjects are produced in relation to the law (Peace and justice). An affective lens, considers not only the characteristics of these spaces, but foregrounds how these arenas influence patterns of behaviour, perception and experience. The body and the production of subjectivity under the law (Peace and Justice) is central to the approach. Tutor in collaboration with 1st Year Masters, Design Academy Eindhoven (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1534498928600-IR65UKRPEDWBY9KS41IH/Screen+Shot+2018-03-25+at+18.52.26.png Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague - Spatial & Performative Logics | Negotiating Systems of Power through Design and it’s Affects (2018) This is an investigation of Interior and procedural elements of International Criminal Courts. An attempt to deconstruct and decode the physical and performative program of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague. This involves mapping and understanding the historical cannons of International Court spaces – Nuremberg, ICTY, ICTR+ - to identify patterns within the spatial and performative order of these legal spaces. This historical line is interpreted in relation to the ICC. ICC is a loaded site where structures of international law are materialised and enacted. It operates upon a set of conditions, relationships, co-ordinated actions and physical systems of social, cultural and political orientation. The court space is an analogue and digital platform of power - not a neutral space – bodies are directed, organised, arranged and positioned within this scheme and subjects are produced in relation to the law (Peace and justice). An affective lens, considers not only the characteristics of these spaces, but foregrounds how these arenas influence patterns of behaviour, perception and experience. The body and the production of subjectivity under the law (Peace and Justice) is central to the approach. Tutor in collaboration with 1st Year Masters, Design Academy Eindhoven (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1534498939714-7NAM8IFTA0KPQK14BWL2/SHL_Architects_ICC_court-room-Copy-1170x813.jpg Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague - Participants | 1st yr Masters, Design Academy Eindhoven Ianis Dobrev (Contextual Design MA), Konstantina Chondrou (Contextual Design MA), Nejma Boussaïd (Information Design MA) Stéphane Borel (Contextual Design MA), Minyang Lui (Information Design MA), Hansol Kim (Contextual Design MA), Eliaenai Barajas (Information Design MA) Vera Van der Berg (Contextual Design MA), Kurina Sohn (Contextual Design MA), Esteban Gomez-Rosselli (Design Writing & Curating MA), Lucas Dubois (Information Design MA) Aline Fantinatti (Design Writing & Curating MA), Domitille Debret (Information Design MA), Yanjin Wu (Contextual Design MA), Michael Bojkowski (Design Writing & Curating MA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1534498930983-G2RW4KFV4QH8RCXNSDPT/Screen+Shot+2018-03-25+at+18.53.05.png Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1534498940255-5NOTI7KNOPZF4HGLWEC0/Theamatic+focus_ICC_Gabriel-1.jpg Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1539956124000-E1L4HIM86CZU411MQTQO/Screen+Shot+2018-10-19+at+15.24.38.png Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague - Binary Security | Performance Installation Ianis, Konstantina and Nejma focused their research on the binary rhythms of security within the ICC. They noticed a consistent paradox between physical and digital security - as if the institution was torn between the ideas of high security and transparency. Beyond the multiple physical security checkpoints, sensible information - such as witnesses’ names - flowed out of the tanked courtroom and was posted to twitter. As designers, they wanted to give this leaked digital information a tangible weight. Their performance and installation activates the path from the entrance of the ICC building to the entrance of the Public Gallery. It aims to depict the sensorial bodily experience of security with the ICC building while commemorating the bodies and identities affected by the complex mechanisms of this institutional system. [text edited from original] Students: Ianis Dobrev (Contextual Design MA), Konstantina Chondrou (Contextual Design MA), Nejma Boussaïd (Information Design MA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1539956649519-JFDRKGSCX2WY4LTUVGJX/Screen+Shot+2018-10-19+at+15.25.15.png Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague - Subjectivities in the Courtroom | Re-interpretation of the ICC Courtroom, A Karaoke for Justice By decoding and analysing the behaviours in the courtroom of the ICC, Stéphane, Minyang, Hansol and Eliaenai distinguished two distinct typologies: the conscious (established, rigid, rehearsed and part of the protocol) and the unconscious, which, on the other hand, allows a place for subjectivity, a space less theatrical. Desks, screens, headphones and technological devices which enhance control, and alienation are reinterpreted - the courtroom as a karaoke room. [text edited from original] Students: Stéphane Borel (Contextual Design MA), Minyang Lui (Information Design MA), Hansol Kim (Contextual Design MA), Eliaenai Barajas (Information Design MA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1539957904254-A0YQGFQY4QV6P7RSE9ZN/Screen+Shot+2018-10-19+at+15.25.39.png Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague - Circumflex | Installation * When in doubt, a Circumflex symbol is added into the live transcripts of the court proceedings, to indicate the need for revision. A court is a scene of doubt, aiming to produce a judgement. As it filters evidence, it is transduced. Transduction determines what it means to encounter information in a specific event. It concerns less the nature of information than how it is made present; how it is brought before the senses so it can be assimilated. The analogy of a whisper game allows us to understand the idea of facing a stream of information. As it is expressed in different forms, its presence is altered. Any translation involves a tension between the context and what one focuses on. In the ICC, the crime and the existence of bodies that hurt, is undeniable. But in this inter-lingual environment, the testimonies and gestures are stretched through interpretation. Circumflex is an installation that brings the transparency and complexity of translation to the sensory and highlights the gap between words and reality. [text is edited from original] Students: Vera Van der Berg (Contextual Design MA), Kurina Sohn (Contextual Design MA), Esteban Gomez-Rosselli (Design Writing & Curating MA), Lucas Dubois (Information Design MA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1540211975822-YKI5RWHZV3NTLTYEX084/IMG_6779.jpg Futures of Peace & Justice | ICC Den Hague - Cadavre Exquis | Interactive Platform The rigidity of definitions around Peace and Justice has Consequences. What if legal definitions were expressed Word-by-word, changing outcomes incrementally? Can an Exquisite Corpse interrogate the legal definitions that appear so foreign to many outside the City of Peace and Justice? The Exquisite Corpse is a game that glues together fragments, conversations and stories. This unpredictable form of collaboration goes by many names in, in many different parts of the world. Through their research, Aline, Domitille, Yanjin and Michael used this process in creating ‘blind’ interactions with a select group of contributors to establish an ongoing and unexpected conversation about a topic that often intimidates and excludes participants. Their Exquisite Corpse is a process that runs on a cycle where on complete ‘corpse’ is produced and displayed after every six contributions. The initial process appears quiet and subdued but is soon revealed to part of a much broader conversation taking place between a wide range of voices. They hope this platform and process will be a useful tool in enabling others to confront issues around international law and the definitions of peace and justice. 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S & S Nest 2018 Publication | Onomatopee Order full colour copy through Onomatopee.net Includes The Politics of Pitch by Nina Power [contextual reflection on the work of Maher, Gayo and Bedford] + Work of Mandy Roos, Olle Lundin, Janina Frye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531437949-BPU5OPSH0GJ5ZYV9IGU4/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+9-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531441899-65FSL1ZV2VAI9EM8AFG5/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+10-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531447092-SOADFGFKTHASZPACFQ1G/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+11-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531450246-O1FQX1C8MQ1I5NL6O327/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+13-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531452259-7TLSYVY30GY48U8WM6IY/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+14-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531457307-F2LNXKOAEKBVDJ0Z9VUZ/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+15-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531459272-HF7Z8BE4BXRH013SSTQ1/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+16-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531415375-1T4WLH80CJ6GX1CXOY07/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+2-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531418743-ETVC24OACD59L7KS007M/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+3-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531420150-KKSXLCHROE8JI1LH5WDI/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+4-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531422583-9W3GHT8JQTOWZ0O4L5HR/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+5-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531424719-G3SHS9MUUZXNLBEIJQA2/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+6-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531426219-EDOWZY5ZTVP63O7OI4QP/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+7-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1532531432125-CCDW334WDLHTAHEOS2O1/_180208_SS-Publication-GRC+8-1.jpg S & S | Collective Enunciation https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/reflexive-self-orientations daily 0.75 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1536227570622-HQWFQ077ZYUSOP1VCUL3/Screen+Shot+2018-07-02+at+21.05.54+copy.png Reflexive - Self | Orientations - R e f l e x i v e - S e l f | O r i e n t a t i o n s (2017) Co-produced with designer & Social worker, Roberto Pérez Gayo Orientation can be understood as a mutually constitutive process and a metastable relationship between space and the body. This workshop seeks to explore this double configuration both physically as well as abstractly by thinking-feeling physically as well as abstractly by thinking-feeling in terms of degrees and intensities about [self]perception ~ action ~ direction. By physicalising and enacting research along with these coordinates, SD Masters students were offered a set of conceptual and methodological entry points that will enable them to inquire into the relationship of design with systems of power through processes of [self]orientation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1536227570622-HQWFQ077ZYUSOP1VCUL3/Screen+Shot+2018-07-02+at+21.05.54+copy.png Reflexive - Self | Orientations - R e f l e x i v e - S e l f | O r i e n t a t i o n s (2017) Co-produced with designer & Social worker, Roberto Pérez Gayo Orientation can be understood as a mutually constitutive process and a metastable relationship between space and the body. This workshop seeks to explore this double configuration both physically as well as abstractly by thinking-feeling physically as well as abstractly by thinking-feeling in terms of degrees and intensities about [self]perception ~ action ~ direction. By physicalising and enacting research along with these coordinates, SD Masters students were offered a set of conceptual and methodological entry points that will enable them to inquire into the relationship of design with systems of power through processes of [self]orientation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1533324882757-JUJW2CKXD0WL8A2AQ4Y3/City+Tour+Map-01.png Reflexive - Self | Orientations What does it mean to be oriented? What are the mechanisms by which we orient our individual and social selves? What implications does orientation have for how the social is arranged and how this space is negotiated? How are bodies and subjectivities affected and shaped by their immediate surroundings? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1533326107718-RAT2O13G5D50UDYBHTTF/Walk.jpg Reflexive - Self | Orientations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1533326087530-T4JBWR1A6BEOM0DNGB0D/DSC_0016.png Reflexive - Self | Orientations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1536227649213-FOZJDDKD910GFTG5G0K1/Screen+Shot+2018-07-02+at+21.06.07+copy.png Reflexive - Self | Orientations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1533326158056-4OF813Z9UJF28D09HIU8/DSC_0035.jpg Reflexive - Self | Orientations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1533324897646-75BS6NO51XZ4DDH4GOCB/Screen+Shot+2018-07-02+at+21.05.54+copy.png Reflexive - Self | Orientations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1542289454482-WTS5HHTLTSRXAYM5ZVDD/Screenshot+2018-11-11+at+22.06.31.png Reflexive - Self | Orientations - Participants | Social Design MA, Design Academy Eindhoven Colin Keays, Yiqian Bao, Esmé Calis, Valerie Daude, Mathew Dominic, Marianne Drews, Billy Ernst, Ivanna Gomez, Morane Grazzini, Chloé Guillemart, Lauriane Heim, Eva Jack, Anna Jakob, Marit Jongsma, Lukas Jurk, Fabio Lamattina Cecilia, Nivi Lehavi, Liora Lvova, Karolina Michalik, Marisa Miller, Flick Morris, Marylou Petot, Ismaël Rifaï, Maggie, Kodai Shimizu, Indrė Srebaliūtė, Mark Wang, Robin Weidner https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/mapping-domesticities-performative-methodologies daily 0.75 2021-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544448006657-XX5MK56JAPK9N46DLI1H/IMG_8325.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies - Mapping Domesticities | Design Anthropologies Performativity, as a bodily practice that produces meaning, functions an analogical and analytical tool that helps to reveal the active, social construction of reality and the techniques by which individual behaviour is determined by the context in which it occurs (and vice versa). Subsequently, performative methodologies are used to explore the performative and staged context of social behaviour. Students are challenged to physicalise and [re]enact their research into the phenomenology of orientation. This conceptual apparatus in [dis]orientation and the use of [re]- orientation strategies will function within this scheme as a force with the potential to destabilise organisational principles and logic and to disrupt patterns in the cultural politics of movement and gesture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544448006657-XX5MK56JAPK9N46DLI1H/IMG_8325.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies - Mapping Domesticities | Design Anthropologies Performativity, as a bodily practice that produces meaning, functions an analogical and analytical tool that helps to reveal the active, social construction of reality and the techniques by which individual behaviour is determined by the context in which it occurs (and vice versa). Subsequently, performative methodologies are used to explore the performative and staged context of social behaviour. Students are challenged to physicalise and [re]enact their research into the phenomenology of orientation. This conceptual apparatus in [dis]orientation and the use of [re]- orientation strategies will function within this scheme as a force with the potential to destabilise organisational principles and logic and to disrupt patterns in the cultural politics of movement and gesture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544448643630-WOBMR6YT5NQOM5EXN98Z/image-asset.jpeg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies - Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies (Min Tanaka) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544448024565-SZXFD5KZYF39J0X0RID3/IMG_8329.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544448023157-8PV7EUXFPIDGHK9K5MND/IMG_8328.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544447983561-STJC7GOSDAOGIWDR449G/IMG_8119.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544447989663-GAOYYNPISI31WV485RQB/IMG_8122.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544447989752-Q1WWZ7MWOE6I7E253TLW/IMG_8123.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1544447993098-IK5SYU13AEHY5MA3IZ7P/IMG_8124.jpg Mapping Domesticities | Performative Methodologies https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416658207-4GLS95CIV0ZYS0ABDJGH/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0002.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design - Stereo-Typed by Design ‘Stereo-Typed by Design’, chapter essay in ‘The Facit Model: Globalism, Localism & Identity’ (1st Edition). Eds. Our Polite Society, Spector Books, Leipzig (2018): 81-93, co-authored with Kiki Mager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416658207-4GLS95CIV0ZYS0ABDJGH/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0002.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design - Stereo-Typed by Design ‘Stereo-Typed by Design’, chapter essay in ‘The Facit Model: Globalism, Localism & Identity’ (1st Edition). Eds. Our Polite Society, Spector Books, Leipzig (2018): 81-93, co-authored with Kiki Mager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416663240-C701TIMRFKNU2ANWGBRA/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0003.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416678994-YN71L2O3BE7SG1KCV102/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0004.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416680628-UYKBLB51AW81I4WAPUDD/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0005.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416697411-MOCFHX9L9DJU3A1PLACD/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0006.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416697114-BIM5D9UZNU6E6VOHOFWN/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0007.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416706593-YW9AUG4GH3JKVCOF5PM4/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0008.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1557416641488-5OUV10XC5XKJZTSVYYMH/OPS+The+FACIT+Model23_page-0001.jpg Stereo-Typed by Design https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372988331-QFMHEV2C95BNGDJX4E0C/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+3_page-0001.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372988331-QFMHEV2C95BNGDJX4E0C/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+3_page-0001.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/5eda6c38876ef76d1ee3f7a0/5eda6c76e50cdf6ed6bc8340/1591372918508/ ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372971624-8C71CU0JY1FIW0PLL619/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+1_page-0001.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it - Materialisation in Art & Design (MAD) Essay for Sandberg Series, MAD Publications, Sternberg Press. MAURIZIO MONTALTI, HERMAN VERKERK (EDS.) Full publication available through Sternberg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372974464-5416Q6VRD6SHXQAVQ991/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+2_page-0001.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372977489-WUOCLQ2TOG7HRTNX80MC/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+4-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372980284-8S2EO4FLLGXTC6ZR8NMZ/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+5-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372983878-Z821BOQSF5LXHOEMWKZV/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+6-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372986490-L656BXS3C700BOMDMCKF/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+7-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372989041-ZR4PK1AOXHUIN3CPPF68/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+8-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372991802-HFO4UHQN17R7RHRZZAQP/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+9-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372991488-S2XQB603TTK7FEN8BZKD/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+10-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372994410-MV55RL3EAH9EKD4OS2MQ/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+11-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1591372994044-SQRTJK87JP1S92ECNX8D/SB-Series-MAD+Bedford+%26+Maher+text+12-1.jpg ... And She Puts this metal rod in and twists it https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/nonperformativity-and-its-just-kabk daily 0.75 2021-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605363109452-BER0MSI9R0KKAJRCUD1B/Screenshot+2020-11-10+at+17.10.01.png NON-Performativity and it's just KABK - Panel 3: QUEERING ART & DESIGN PEDAGOGIES LINK TO RECORDING: QUEERING ART & DESIGN PEDAGOGIES JOY MARIAMA SMITH | Anti-productivity and Unrestricted Sociality CARLY ROSE BEDFORD & GABRIEL .A. MAHER | Non Perfomativity and the ...‘This is KABK’ Moderator: Alice Twemlow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605363109452-BER0MSI9R0KKAJRCUD1B/Screenshot+2020-11-10+at+17.10.01.png NON-Performativity and it's just KABK - Panel 3: QUEERING ART & DESIGN PEDAGOGIES LINK TO RECORDING: QUEERING ART & DESIGN PEDAGOGIES JOY MARIAMA SMITH | Anti-productivity and Unrestricted Sociality CARLY ROSE BEDFORD & GABRIEL .A. MAHER | Non Perfomativity and the ...‘This is KABK’ Moderator: Alice Twemlow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605024565113-RT6JORI720O64R8WULYW/Fault+Lines+Brochure+1_page-0001.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK - FAULT LINES: KABK RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2019 Royal Academy of Art The Hague Friday, December 6, 2019 Organised by the Lectorate Design This symposium presents research activity by members of the KABK teaching community with a particular emphasis on practice-led research that uses art and design either as its subject matter or means for investigation. It will feature some of the projects being developed through the current KABK Research Groups, alongside contributions from invited keynote speakers in thematic groupings: Framing and Reframing Archives; Performing Bodies; Re-imagining Operations; and Queering Art and Design Pedagogies. The symposium seeks to identify approaches, methods and tools with broader application to the growing research culture at KABK and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605363088578-473UFCH5LFEYUPZRBYXI/Fault+Lines+Brochure+11_page-0001.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605024574213-49J42T232F4HZ98KR1FR/Fault+Lines+Brochure+12_page-0001.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605364078457-BSUNHWO6HD7RN6PAEJKW/06122019_KAJU_FaultLinesSymposium-548.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK - NON-PERFORMATIVITY AND THE … ‘IT’S JUST KABK’ LINK TO RECORDING: NON-PERFORMATIVITY AND THE … ‘IT’S JUST KABK’ Maher and Bedford will discuss their research process as a case study in itself. The phrase “It’s Just KABK” is a remark frequently uttered by students meaning, “damn, this thing doesn’t work!” As such, it becomes a metaphor for frustration and carries with it a concept of “non-performativity.” The term non-performativity is a concept developed by scholar Sara Ahmed primarily to refer to institutional speech acts that do not bring into effect what they name. [1] This term is used to frame and analyse the case study in relation to dominant and formalised institutional structures, formalised research processes and informal encounters with students. The case study charts the microcosm from which the research trajectory began—as an investigation into their own pedagogic practices which centred around queer and intersectional feminist frameworks—to the macrocosmic entanglement of a school-wide phenomena they encoun¬tered during the research process. They foreground how IN_FORM_ALITY—as in, informal encounters and processes— became the most “productive” method for navigating the research trajectory. They discuss how and why the “failure of formality” prevailed in the research process and subsequently, how the “failure of formality” manifests within the structures of the institution that do not bring into effect what they name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605024560820-YQ5G8YHXDUPHFE4BY7V1/Fault+Lines+Brochure+10_page-0001.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605363416900-VBZUO51W71VL8X6X5N70/06122019_KAJU_FaultLinesSymposium-539.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK - JOY MARIAMA SMITH | ANTI-PRODUCTIVITY AND UNRESTRICTED SOCIALITY LINK TO RECORDING: ANTI-PRODUCTIVITY AND UNRESTRICTED SOCIALITY Focusing on decentralized knowledge production and col¬laboration as researcher practice, Smith will reflect on their own methods of research starting by locating their own positionality in the context of institutions. Leaning on text by Moten & Harney and Okun, as catalysers for framing research, Smith will discuss action-oriented research that exists out¬side the dominant research culture(s). By engaging with anti-colonial and anti-capitalistic research praxis, via intuition, ancestral knowledge, emotional intelligence, self-care and rest, Smith will consider working in, and generating from, the margins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605363252721-HN7C1LJCQRTJWQ2BTNJE/06122019_KAJU_FaultLinesSymposium-487.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605363685205-TSPX1R0OTONSY1OVKB3H/06122019_KAJU_FaultLinesSymposium-593.jpg NON-Performativity and it's just KABK https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/wonderment-domastication daily 0.75 2020-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605715337332-WS4T61QUVMRGVXTOMUY2/social-matter-social-design-2.jpeg Wonderment Domastication - Social Matter, Social Design Valiz, Amsterdam (2020) ‘Design is a social discipline. Once we acknowledge that the material and the social are entangled, any romantic illusion (or delusion) about design as mere form-giving is washed away. Once we recognize that things have presence and agency within the social systems we inhabit, no designer can be absolved from the consequences of their design. This is a strong book, inexorable in attributing designers responsibility, but also adamant in recognizing their growing power and their ability to wield objects as weapons for positive change.’ - Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605715337332-WS4T61QUVMRGVXTOMUY2/social-matter-social-design-2.jpeg Wonderment Domastication - Social Matter, Social Design Valiz, Amsterdam (2020) ‘Design is a social discipline. Once we acknowledge that the material and the social are entangled, any romantic illusion (or delusion) about design as mere form-giving is washed away. Once we recognize that things have presence and agency within the social systems we inhabit, no designer can be absolved from the consequences of their design. This is a strong book, inexorable in attributing designers responsibility, but also adamant in recognizing their growing power and their ability to wield objects as weapons for positive change.’ - Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605715232900-UQQT4WXKDZ89ZO5C3B9G/20201118_162429_0006.jpg Wonderment Domastication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605715050161-VEJ8TCBD6BO2FLY5UW4V/20201118_162429_0005.JPG Wonderment Domastication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605715048445-J29YEJ965QWMN2NW1S1N/20201118_162429_0004.JPG Wonderment Domastication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605715031853-6G2XT5JBSIZP458JLIWW/20201118_162429_0003.JPG Wonderment Domastication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1605715028636-VTFU8UN4LA7L67SDPXHD/20201118_162429_0002.JPG Wonderment Domastication https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/metabolic-rift-metabolic-shift-1 daily 0.75 2021-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1630155353305-6OBSWDJVFA35B2ER4HJ6/COUNTRYSIDE+UNFOLDS.jpg Metabolic Rift | Metabolic Shift How can we think through the body towards infrastructure? How are our bodies produced and reproduced across the infrastructural lines of the food system? In what ways are (our) bodies differentiated — sustained or harmed — through these complex systems and networks that comprise power relations, historical processes and social phenomena and construct scarcity for many and abundance for some? In this question, we center the production and reproduction of bodies in relation to the infrastructure of the food system. In other words, bodies are contextualised within the complex systems and networks of supply(chain), labour(force) and distribution. Through this question, we can begin to consider how our own bodies are positioned and organised along the supply chain, allowing us to trace the interdependent practices and processes of infrastructure from the micro (individual) to the macro (transnational) — Recognising this interdependent relationship allows us to question how our bodies are formulated and conceptualised as a consequence. From here, we can question whose lives are neglected or improved through the infrastructure of the food system. The Marxist ecological theory of the Metabolic Rift (1850s) is used as a starting point to understand the historical processes and power relations which have configured the agricultural food system to date. Subsequently, the metaphor of Metabolism is used throughout the brief as a tool to think with and through as it situates the body and embodied practices of food consumption at the center of the research. Similarly, it engages an inseparable relationship between body, environment and infrastructure. Infrastructure is that which sets things in motion; … ‘material forms that allow for the possibility of an exchange over space. They are physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people and finance are trafficked’ (B.Larkin, 2013). Our bodies* and the processes within and surrounding them vis-à-vis infrastructure, link to the social codes and relations that keep our bodies connected to infrastructure, or demand particular types and/or certain divisions of labour, which often reinforces or reproduces our bodies across gendered, classed and racialised lines as well as interspecies hierarchies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1630155353305-6OBSWDJVFA35B2ER4HJ6/COUNTRYSIDE+UNFOLDS.jpg Metabolic Rift | Metabolic Shift How can we think through the body towards infrastructure? How are our bodies produced and reproduced across the infrastructural lines of the food system? In what ways are (our) bodies differentiated — sustained or harmed — through these complex systems and networks that comprise power relations, historical processes and social phenomena and construct scarcity for many and abundance for some? In this question, we center the production and reproduction of bodies in relation to the infrastructure of the food system. In other words, bodies are contextualised within the complex systems and networks of supply(chain), labour(force) and distribution. Through this question, we can begin to consider how our own bodies are positioned and organised along the supply chain, allowing us to trace the interdependent practices and processes of infrastructure from the micro (individual) to the macro (transnational) — Recognising this interdependent relationship allows us to question how our bodies are formulated and conceptualised as a consequence. From here, we can question whose lives are neglected or improved through the infrastructure of the food system. The Marxist ecological theory of the Metabolic Rift (1850s) is used as a starting point to understand the historical processes and power relations which have configured the agricultural food system to date. Subsequently, the metaphor of Metabolism is used throughout the brief as a tool to think with and through as it situates the body and embodied practices of food consumption at the center of the research. Similarly, it engages an inseparable relationship between body, environment and infrastructure. Infrastructure is that which sets things in motion; … ‘material forms that allow for the possibility of an exchange over space. They are physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people and finance are trafficked’ (B.Larkin, 2013). Our bodies* and the processes within and surrounding them vis-à-vis infrastructure, link to the social codes and relations that keep our bodies connected to infrastructure, or demand particular types and/or certain divisions of labour, which often reinforces or reproduces our bodies across gendered, classed and racialised lines as well as interspecies hierarchies. https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/a-glitch-in-the-system-1 daily 0.75 2022-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1665654616189-POPR7FO3NXOHQZ43XFTL/9780367520199.jpg A Glitch in the System - Contentious Cities, Design & the Gendered Production of Space Routledge (2020) Contentious Cities offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment. Positioning design as a central component in how cities produce, construct, represent and materialise gendered spatial practices, it brings together practice and theory to critique, question and enable solutions that challenge the root causes of gender inequalities in cities. Through a rich array of case-studies, practice-led interventions, and historical and theoretical perspectives, it examines important issues that affect the ways in which women, and people of diverse gender and sexual identities experience and participate in cities. Thematically organised, it considers problems of street-harassment, heterosexualisation and equity in access and mobility, together with modes of segregation, isolation and discrimination, as well as processes of resistance, intervention and agency. Grounded in feminist and queer methods of analysis, the book offers new insights regarding the representation of cities, the lived experience of cities, and how design-tactics and approaches might affect the ways cities shape and regulate how women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit, occupy and move through the city. An examination of the ways in which design might shift toward safer and more inclusive cities, Contentious Cities will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies and urban studies, as well as those working in the fields of urban planning and design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b50bc86f793920a2f045495/1665654616189-POPR7FO3NXOHQZ43XFTL/9780367520199.jpg A Glitch in the System - Contentious Cities, Design & the Gendered Production of Space Routledge (2020) Contentious Cities offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment. Positioning design as a central component in how cities produce, construct, represent and materialise gendered spatial practices, it brings together practice and theory to critique, question and enable solutions that challenge the root causes of gender inequalities in cities. Through a rich array of case-studies, practice-led interventions, and historical and theoretical perspectives, it examines important issues that affect the ways in which women, and people of diverse gender and sexual identities experience and participate in cities. Thematically organised, it considers problems of street-harassment, heterosexualisation and equity in access and mobility, together with modes of segregation, isolation and discrimination, as well as processes of resistance, intervention and agency. 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