What is IF Labs?
IF LABs is a week-long festival designed to shine a light on acts of making – and even what making itself means – here, now and into the next. True to form, this boundary expanding event reflects the rigor and inventive energy that ICE and Wake Forest has become known for, and invites the campus and community to experience a fresh palette of creativity towards inventing futures shaped with imagination and purpose.
The Wake Forest, Winston Salem and larger community are welcome to sign up for micro labs and hands-on workshops, to see performances, and to join stimulating discussions about 21st creativity with a diverse mix of students, faculty, community members, staff and featured national and international guest ‘provocateurs’. In one, two and three hour time slots, participants will have the opportunity to design and build, improvise and perform, make a scene and make a plan. Local leaders and global visionaries will engage methods and techniques from ancient to contemporary, digital to experiential, improbable to entrepreneurial. You will also encounter performances, artist talks and demonstrations that are sure to inspire.
Be a part of CONVERSATERIA, a public symposium which launches the first of several provocations, “What kind of creativities are needed to make an inventive, just and sustainable future?” Cultural, historical, artistic, social and scientific contexts will inform the creative exchanges and stimulate discussion about the impacts of teaching, learning and making in complex environments. By the end of the afternoon, we’ll forge many more questions and responses leading to visionary proposals for how we will be inventing futures today. Delicious food by Beta Verde will ground the lively proceedings.
Where is the event?
Located around the Reynolda Campus. Please see schedule for corresponding locations.
Note: Parking for Non-students is located in Parking Lot Q and the Visitor Parking Lot.
For more info:
Lynn Book, IF LABs Organizer, Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Director, Program of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship: [email protected]
These events are supported with funding from the Office of the Provost, the Program of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship and the IPLACe, center for interdisciplinary performance in the liberal arts, and are being co-organized with Lynn Book’s students in the Make It Lab: Designing Creativities class and the Foundations in Creativity and Innovation classes, spring 2015 in conjunction with community partner Margaret Norfleet Neff and many campus and community friends.
IF LABs is a week-long festival designed to shine a light on acts of making – and even what making itself means – here, now and into the next. True to form, this boundary expanding event reflects the rigor and inventive energy that ICE and Wake Forest has become known for, and invites the campus and community to experience a fresh palette of creativity towards inventing futures shaped with imagination and purpose.
The Wake Forest, Winston Salem and larger community are welcome to sign up for micro labs and hands-on workshops, to see performances, and to join stimulating discussions about 21st creativity with a diverse mix of students, faculty, community members, staff and featured national and international guest ‘provocateurs’. In one, two and three hour time slots, participants will have the opportunity to design and build, improvise and perform, make a scene and make a plan. Local leaders and global visionaries will engage methods and techniques from ancient to contemporary, digital to experiential, improbable to entrepreneurial. You will also encounter performances, artist talks and demonstrations that are sure to inspire.
Be a part of CONVERSATERIA, a public symposium which launches the first of several provocations, “What kind of creativities are needed to make an inventive, just and sustainable future?” Cultural, historical, artistic, social and scientific contexts will inform the creative exchanges and stimulate discussion about the impacts of teaching, learning and making in complex environments. By the end of the afternoon, we’ll forge many more questions and responses leading to visionary proposals for how we will be inventing futures today. Delicious food by Beta Verde will ground the lively proceedings.
Where is the event?
Located around the Reynolda Campus. Please see schedule for corresponding locations.
Note: Parking for Non-students is located in Parking Lot Q and the Visitor Parking Lot.
For more info:
Lynn Book, IF LABs Organizer, Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Director, Program of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship: [email protected]
These events are supported with funding from the Office of the Provost, the Program of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship and the IPLACe, center for interdisciplinary performance in the liberal arts, and are being co-organized with Lynn Book’s students in the Make It Lab: Designing Creativities class and the Foundations in Creativity and Innovation classes, spring 2015 in conjunction with community partner Margaret Norfleet Neff and many campus and community friends.