A night of talks from the research team of the Centre for Design Informatics in response to POWELL + MEHRPOUYA’s Thinking Machine, part of The Palace of Forgetting exhibition at the Warburton Gallery. The team will look at the changing landscapes of cities, as if Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower was a looking glass in to the future.

Speakers:

• Chris Speed (Professor of Design Informatics) City Outskirts Above our Heads: space in the city [VISIONS]
• Robert Powell and Hadi Mehrpouya (artists) The Thinking Machine: Memory Palaces and World Theatres. [THEORY]
• Pierre Forissier (architect) Minor City [PRACTICE]
• Duncan Shingleton (digital artist) Future City Flows [NETWORKS]

The Palace of Forgetting is the first collaboration between Robert Powell and Hadi Mehrpouya, an artist with a background as a software engineer and computer programmer. Encompassing both new and traditional media, the show focuses on the construction and manipulation of knowledge and its relation to questions of power and control. For further information on the exhibition visit Warburton Gallery website.