'The Unforeseeable: The Event and Gift of Uncertainty'

Reflection on the creative dynamic of uncertainty in context of 2014 referendum on Scottish Independence with reference to Breaking Bad, Marcel Mauss The Gift and Jacques Derrida' The Gift of Death.

Charrette leader of action involving practice of 'potlatch' at Ocean Terminal shopping mall where a copper bar was first exchanged and then thrown by recipient into the Forth river.

A one-day symposium at Edinburgh College of Art and Talbot Rice Gallery. Keynote speakers Ross Birrell, Maj Hasager, Craig Mulholland and Nina Power present, debate and speculate on one Forthcoming Material of Practice of their own devising. The morning session of the symposium takes place at Edinburgh College of Art, where the four speakers make their presentations. The afternoon session takes place at Talbot Rice Gallery where each speaker leads a focussed charette for twelve participants.

Organised by Deborah Jackson and Maria Fusco, Edinburgh College of Art