February 2021SMC hosted digital panel discussion exploring new understandings of ‘activism’, agency and creative expression and the pleasures that come from personal and collective growth.
November 2020'I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love' Freire, P. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
November 2020'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' – Camus… Courtesy of Adrienne Maree Brown
October 2020Another title that feels urgent for now, a book published in the wake of the first spike of Covid 19 that demands a new perspective on care and interdependence. Lynne Segal, Author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy and others put care at the centre of things in this pandemic. As the second wave comes and poverty and degradation become potentially the primary area of concern, we must now move to politics that raises such urgent questions and move away from the neoliberalist ideals of self and competition and rather foreground the human and social potential of the subject rather than the economic.
October 2020WE PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY, WHERE THE SHOCKS OF THE NEW MANIFEST AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH. Anti-Fragile Manifesto 2020
July 2020School of Media and Communication collaborate with UAL Insights for an outreach intervention day workshop titled 'The Anti-fragile Collective: A Pedagogy for Wellbeing'.
June 2020Staff and students from the School of Media and Communication, LCF create new anti-fragile rituals born out of the body in isolation.
June 2020Choreographer Alexander Whitley and LCF Performance Researcher Donatella Barbieri design workshops for staff and students to perform and prototype new anti-fragile rituals.
June 2020Seetal Solanki develops a framework for ideating new anti-fragile rituals for the Anti-fragile Online series.
May 2020Future-focused design studio Pitch Studios develop an Anti-fragile workshop for staff and students of the School of Media and Communication, LCF.
May 2020Anti-fragile Collective goes online and asks: "how can we prototype new rituals to explore the creative capacities of our bodies in isolation"?
March 2020Anti-fragile Collective Secondary School Intervention with Chobham Academy, Stratford East London.
January 2020Film installation by Year 1 students re-interpreting the Anti-fragile Collective Manifesto.
January 2020Year 1 BA students from School of Media and Communication co-create 'The Anti-fragile Collective Manifesto' alongside academics and Superimpose.
January 2020Knowledge Exchange project between progressive creative agency Superimpose, and Year 1 School of Media and Communications students, LCF.
December 2019Themes of Solidarity and Collaboration as Turner Prize 2019 has been awarded to a collective bringing together the four nominated artists.
November 2019Novara FM explore 'Collective Joy', one of the core drivers of the Anti-fragile Collective.
November 2019"If history has one consistent narrative, it’s change." Superimpose present their Perma-Flux report.
November 2019A true exemplar, almost responding Donna Haraway's 'Making Kin' brief (as articulated in Staying with The Trouble) extraordinary hybrids that are half frog and half robot.
October 2019‘Staying with the trouble is both more serious and more lively and indeed more fun' - Donna Haraway speculates and develops a new way to reconfigure our relationship to the world.
July 2019Industry, academics and alumni join forces to explore and determine the zeitgeist in fashion media and communication.
