Glitterworlds
With Dr Rebecca Coleman - Goldsmiths, University London
Overview
Glitterworlds (2016)
This research project involved students collaging imaginations of their futures. Out of a range of materials, including magazines, newspapers, stickers and stamps, glitter emerged as an especially significant thing. It featured prominently in many of the collages the students made, helping to emphasise ideas, people and places that they felt positively about, and it also seemed to provide joy and fun as it was passed around the table and painted on to nails. It also got everywhere – stuck to school blazers, scattered across the art-room floor, pooled in the bottom of bags. While the research was not designed to be about it, glitter demanded to be noticed.
These workshops, led by Rebecca Coleman (then in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London and now in the Bristol Institute of Digital Futures), formed part of a book, Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing (2020, Goldsmiths Press).
Glitterworlds (2016)
This research project involved students collaging imaginations of their futures. Out of a range of materials, including magazines, newspapers, stickers and stamps, glitter emerged as an especially significant thing. It featured prominently in many of the collages the students made, helping to emphasise ideas, people and places that they felt positively about, and it also seemed to provide joy and fun as it was passed around the table and painted on to nails. It also got everywhere – stuck to school blazers, scattered across the art-room floor, pooled in the bottom of bags. While the research was not designed to be about it, glitter demanded to be noticed.
These workshops, led by Rebecca Coleman (then in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London and now in the Bristol Institute of Digital Futures), formed part of a book, Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing (2020, Goldsmiths Press).
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Images from the session
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Glitterworlds publication
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