Pelion Summer Lab culminates with a public experiment in which we open up the activities of the lab to peers, friends, colleagues, village residents, tourists and passers-by. We invite them to engage with the ideas, questions and creation that have come out of our ten days together.
Every year the experiment takes a different form: in previous labs, for instance, the cohorts have staged an escape room, designed a trio of serious/critical games, created a multimodal shrine and plotted a sound walk.
The experiment is always a risk: we never really know how it will go because it depends on who shows up and what they add. Indeed the invitation and the creation of a hospitable space of exchange is the critical first step of the experiment.
The experiment is not the beginning, but also not the end: it is the result of experience, but meant to be tried again. In each context, it will be something different. In each instantiation, it has the potential to traverse the regularized borders between research and dissemination, teaching and learning, expert and audience, argument and performance, the lab and the world.
Every year the experiment takes a different form: in previous labs, for instance, the cohorts have staged an escape room, designed a trio of serious/critical games, created a multimodal shrine and plotted a sound walk.
The experiment is always a risk: we never really know how it will go because it depends on who shows up and what they add. Indeed the invitation and the creation of a hospitable space of exchange is the critical first step of the experiment.
The experiment is not the beginning, but also not the end: it is the result of experience, but meant to be tried again. In each context, it will be something different. In each instantiation, it has the potential to traverse the regularized borders between research and dissemination, teaching and learning, expert and audience, argument and performance, the lab and the world.
