Hi AoIR friends and colleagues!! I’ll be running a free, experimental half-day workshop in Barcelona on June 9, 2022, on thinking about creative practices for adding affective, or “mood” aspects of lived experience into the increasingly automated data-gathering systems used in smart cities. If you’re interested in joining the workshop, please sign up! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/in-the-mood-moodboarding-as-a-method-tickets... There are a few seats remaining and we’ll be giving certificates of completion for anyone who attends. There’s also good potential to receive ECTS credit if you’re a PhD candidate. More details below and link to Eventbrite registration. Email me if you have questions, and feel free to distribute/forward. Warm Regards, Annette “In the Mood: A Collaborative Moodboarding Workshop” Date and time Thu., 9 June 2022 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Central European Summer Time Spain (Madrid) Time Location Disseny Hub Barcelona, Level -1, Room K 38 Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes 08018 Barcelona, Spain Event Details: How can mood and moodboarding work as a speculative tool for citizens to imagine future designs for sustainable and resilient cities? Register for this free half-day workshop<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/in-the-mood-moodboarding-as-a-method-tickets-339082854947> This half-day workshop invites participants to discuss and participate in playful experiments to generate collaborative moodboards, expressing some of the moods of Barcelona in a post-pandemic time of recovery. Participants and city stakeholders will discuss how sensory and textural experiences like 'mood' become meaningful information or ‘data’ for city stakeholders, as they try to build better futures in times of global crisis. This Workshop is facilitated by Annette Markham, critical data studies scholar, Professor and co-director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Annette will present a framework for building 'moodboarding as a method' for critical pedagogy and participatory engagement. The workshop proceeds in five parts: 1. Professor Annette Markham will launch the workshop with a talk introducing the idea and premises of 'moodboarding as a method for transgressing smart city data'. 2. Participants will then work with visual and textural materials in the space to visualise 'moods', based on facilitator prompts. 3. Participants move into small teams to create a visual and sensory 'moodboard' of their current and imagined future city. 4. Participants will discuss the challenges and value of the exercise, as well as moodboarding or other creative layering, as a form of data production, citizen social science, or city engagement. 5. Participants will then open the workshop doors from 19:00 to 20:00 to showcase the resulting moodboards in the style of a gallery opening, and where a sound artist will be invited to add another interpretive sonic layer to the moodboards. 'In the Mood – Moodboarding as a Method' is presented by RMIT Europe, RMIT PlaceLab, and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, and held as part of the New European Bauhaus Festival and Barcelona Design Week ’22. This Workshop is part of Annette Markham’s larger research project within RMIT PlaceLab – an urban initiative designed to connect community, space, and place. https://sites.rmit.edu.au/placelab/ 'In The Mood – Moodboarding as a Method' aligns with similar activity that will take place in Melbourne, Australia (August 2022) and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (October 2022), as part of the RMIT PlaceLab Research Project. For more information about the conceptual foundations or methodology, please contact Annette Markham. Thanks, ----------------------------::----------------------------------- Annette N. Markham, PhD Professor of Media and Communication and Co-Director, DERC (Digital Ethnography Research Centre) RMIT University, Melbourne City Campus, Australia Professor (MSO, on leave), Information Studies & Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark https://annettemarkham.com<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fannettemarkham.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cannette.markham%40rmit.edu.au%7Cdfa4e910f8fc442fd53008d90e2fbd1b%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C637556420514566553%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Q7l9bFKvUJGuYLURhfoHDEr65c5M4QtO9fQVdK0K0eI%3D&reserved=0> RMIT email: Annette.Markham@rmit.edu.au<mailto:Annette.Markham@rmit.edu.au> Twitter: @annettemarkham ---------------------::-------------------------