TUESDAY MAR 24:_______________________________________________________________
3 – 4 pm: “IF LABs LAUNCH! – Mapping Creativity at Wake Forest” Lynn Book (Theatre and Dance / ICE) sign up for workshops, labs and Conversateria! > Scales lower lobby
4 – 6 pm : “Make a Scene – Playwriting the Impossible” / Sharon Andrews (Theatre) - direct and perform ‘impossible’ stage directions written by students from Sharon’s playwriting class > Scales 134 Rehearsal Room
4 – 6 pm: “Wake 2034 – a Design Studio” / David Finn (Art) - an open design session to envision futures at Wake with Finn’s ‘Design Studio: Ethics and Aesthetics’ class > Scales Art Studio 2
4 – 5 pm: “Rapid 3-D Prototyping” / Bill Conner (Biology) - a hands on workshop in developing ideas and produce 3-D prototypes based on bio-inspired designs > Winston Hall 035
5 – 6 pm: “Flash Fiction” / Joanna Ruocco (English) and Aimee Mepham (Humanities Institute) - workshop on narrative in miniature you’ll read a few very short stories, and produce a few of your own. Come ready to write! > Art 103
IF NOW Event
6:00 – 7:00 pm: “Improvising Music” / Jacqui Carrasco / Matt Kendrick with Lynn Book > Hanes Art Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Center
IF NOW Event with Spring Fest!
“Making Future Now” outdoor projection event - CANCELLED
WEDNESDAY MARCH 25:___________________________________________________
3 – 6 pm: “Walking as Creative Practice” Paul Fabozzi (New York) - a trek across WFU and Reynolda Village to look, see, imagine and translate impressions into material ideas > Start Hanes Gallery
4 – 6 pm: “Creative Forest – A Design Thinking Workshop” / David Finn and Jennifer Gentry (Art) - discover the essentials of art and design through a high energy hands on session > Scales lower lobby
4 – 5 pm: “Bot Shop” Paul Pauca (Computer Science) - an open studio to see what Dr. Pauca’s STEM lab is doing with robotics research. Explore the process of making next wave tech > Manchester Hall
4 – 6 pm: “How to Make Inclusive Worlds” / Angela Kocze and Wanda Balzano (Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies) - a co-taught workshop that includes performing the world that participants co-create > Brendle Concert Hall lobby, Scales Fine Arts Center
IF NOW Event
6 – 7 pm: “Art, Research, Technology and the Role of (Ad)Venturing” / guest media and sound artist and brew entrepreneur, Shawn Decker (Chicago) and guest visual artist and curator, Paul Fabozzi (New York) > Hanes Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Cente
THURSDAY MARCH 26:_____________________________________________________
3 – 6 pm: “Inside Out Sound” / Shawn Decker (Chicago) – media and sound artist a hands-on “kinetic sound” physical computing workshop to create music making possibilities > Rehearsal Room Scales 134
3 – 5 pm: “Circuit Bending – a DIY sonic playground” / beatrix*JAR (Bianca Pettis and Jacob Roske, Minneapolis) - - (re)make children’s toys to make your own music > Ring Theatre, Scales
4 – 5 pm: “Making History: Imagining 200 years of liberal arts at Wake Forest” / Tom Frank - participants are invited to envision the next 20 years of liberal arts education by imagining the past using photos, writing, documents, and performance > Brendle Concert Hall lobby, Scales Fine Arts Center
3 – 4 pm: “Exploring Nature’s Amazing Structures” / Bill Conner – a hands on hi-low tech approach to mimicking forms found in nature from simple paper to 3-D printing” > Winston Hall lobby
4 – 5 pm: “Scenario Lab” / Albert Bressand (Paris) Thought leader and economist Bressand will build from the emergent themes in Conner’s workshop to inspire participants to imagine future worlds based on strategic visualizing processes > Winston Hall lobby
IF NOW Event
6 – 8:00 pm: “a Bent Performance” / guest artists beatrix*JAR (Minneapolis) perform their music made with children’s toys that have been majorly messed with > Ring Theatre, Scales Fine Arts Center
*FLASH! Just Added: “Jam with b*JAR,/ WFU faculty and students + guest sound artist Shawn Decker (Chicago) will join in for an improvisation set that challenges boundaries and invites possibility.
FRIDAY MARCH 27:_______________________________________________________
12 – 5 pm – CONVERSATERIA – a symposium on Inventing Futures > Scales lower lobby
12 - 1:30 pm - Lunch by Beta Verde and WFU students
12:30 - 1:30 pm - Pop Up Provocateurs - IF Labs featured guests will give a brief context of who they are and pose provocative challenges for ‘Inventing Futures’
2 - 3 pm - Table Talk Now – Symposium participants will be engaged in discussions by IF LABs Leaders at each table
3 - 4 pm - Table Talk Future – Symposium participants will be engaged in discussions by IF LABs Leaders at each table
4 - 5 pm - Inventing Futures Propositions
3 – 4 pm: “IF LABs LAUNCH! – Mapping Creativity at Wake Forest” Lynn Book (Theatre and Dance / ICE) sign up for workshops, labs and Conversateria! > Scales lower lobby
4 – 6 pm : “Make a Scene – Playwriting the Impossible” / Sharon Andrews (Theatre) - direct and perform ‘impossible’ stage directions written by students from Sharon’s playwriting class > Scales 134 Rehearsal Room
4 – 6 pm: “Wake 2034 – a Design Studio” / David Finn (Art) - an open design session to envision futures at Wake with Finn’s ‘Design Studio: Ethics and Aesthetics’ class > Scales Art Studio 2
4 – 5 pm: “Rapid 3-D Prototyping” / Bill Conner (Biology) - a hands on workshop in developing ideas and produce 3-D prototypes based on bio-inspired designs > Winston Hall 035
5 – 6 pm: “Flash Fiction” / Joanna Ruocco (English) and Aimee Mepham (Humanities Institute) - workshop on narrative in miniature you’ll read a few very short stories, and produce a few of your own. Come ready to write! > Art 103
IF NOW Event
6:00 – 7:00 pm: “Improvising Music” / Jacqui Carrasco / Matt Kendrick with Lynn Book > Hanes Art Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Center
IF NOW Event with Spring Fest!
“Making Future Now” outdoor projection event - CANCELLED
WEDNESDAY MARCH 25:___________________________________________________
3 – 6 pm: “Walking as Creative Practice” Paul Fabozzi (New York) - a trek across WFU and Reynolda Village to look, see, imagine and translate impressions into material ideas > Start Hanes Gallery
4 – 6 pm: “Creative Forest – A Design Thinking Workshop” / David Finn and Jennifer Gentry (Art) - discover the essentials of art and design through a high energy hands on session > Scales lower lobby
4 – 5 pm: “Bot Shop” Paul Pauca (Computer Science) - an open studio to see what Dr. Pauca’s STEM lab is doing with robotics research. Explore the process of making next wave tech > Manchester Hall
4 – 6 pm: “How to Make Inclusive Worlds” / Angela Kocze and Wanda Balzano (Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies) - a co-taught workshop that includes performing the world that participants co-create > Brendle Concert Hall lobby, Scales Fine Arts Center
IF NOW Event
6 – 7 pm: “Art, Research, Technology and the Role of (Ad)Venturing” / guest media and sound artist and brew entrepreneur, Shawn Decker (Chicago) and guest visual artist and curator, Paul Fabozzi (New York) > Hanes Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Cente
THURSDAY MARCH 26:_____________________________________________________
3 – 6 pm: “Inside Out Sound” / Shawn Decker (Chicago) – media and sound artist a hands-on “kinetic sound” physical computing workshop to create music making possibilities > Rehearsal Room Scales 134
3 – 5 pm: “Circuit Bending – a DIY sonic playground” / beatrix*JAR (Bianca Pettis and Jacob Roske, Minneapolis) - - (re)make children’s toys to make your own music > Ring Theatre, Scales
4 – 5 pm: “Making History: Imagining 200 years of liberal arts at Wake Forest” / Tom Frank - participants are invited to envision the next 20 years of liberal arts education by imagining the past using photos, writing, documents, and performance > Brendle Concert Hall lobby, Scales Fine Arts Center
3 – 4 pm: “Exploring Nature’s Amazing Structures” / Bill Conner – a hands on hi-low tech approach to mimicking forms found in nature from simple paper to 3-D printing” > Winston Hall lobby
4 – 5 pm: “Scenario Lab” / Albert Bressand (Paris) Thought leader and economist Bressand will build from the emergent themes in Conner’s workshop to inspire participants to imagine future worlds based on strategic visualizing processes > Winston Hall lobby
IF NOW Event
6 – 8:00 pm: “a Bent Performance” / guest artists beatrix*JAR (Minneapolis) perform their music made with children’s toys that have been majorly messed with > Ring Theatre, Scales Fine Arts Center
*FLASH! Just Added: “Jam with b*JAR,/ WFU faculty and students + guest sound artist Shawn Decker (Chicago) will join in for an improvisation set that challenges boundaries and invites possibility.
FRIDAY MARCH 27:_______________________________________________________
12 – 5 pm – CONVERSATERIA – a symposium on Inventing Futures > Scales lower lobby
12 - 1:30 pm - Lunch by Beta Verde and WFU students
12:30 - 1:30 pm - Pop Up Provocateurs - IF Labs featured guests will give a brief context of who they are and pose provocative challenges for ‘Inventing Futures’
2 - 3 pm - Table Talk Now – Symposium participants will be engaged in discussions by IF LABs Leaders at each table
3 - 4 pm - Table Talk Future – Symposium participants will be engaged in discussions by IF LABs Leaders at each table
4 - 5 pm - Inventing Futures Propositions