The Postal Museum repository is alive. Image © Amanda Perry-Kessaris, 2025. We (Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Emily Allbon, and archivist Susannah Coster) are partnering with The Postal Museum and a team of academic Collaborators to explore how we can use archives and museum collections to enliven legal education. We are beginning with an experiment: co-designing a set… Continue reading Enlivening legal education through The Postal Museum
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What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process?
This project is discussed in 'Opening up Cyprob imaginations with an interspecies council', Episode 17 of the podcast ‘Figure it’, which is published by Island Talks, an independent Cyprus-based citizen media initiative. Cyprus has passed its longest ever period without any negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem. Civil society actors in Cyprus (including Cyprus Peace… Continue reading What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process?
Bristol Legal Futures
This post was co-authored with Elen Stokes and is cross-posted on the University of Bristol Law School Blog. How might we legal scholars develop our capability to work with legal futures? Why ought we to try? These questions lay at the heart of a one-day capacity-building Workshop held at the University of Bristol in July… Continue reading Bristol Legal Futures
Edinburgh Legal Theory Bazaar
A version of this post is appeared on the Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies Blog How might model-making help us to respond to Margaret Davies’ call for ‘a more open, dynamic and responsive understanding of law’—one which understands theorisation less as a formalistic process aimed at conceptual unity, more as an experimental process aimed at conceptual co-existence? … Continue reading Edinburgh Legal Theory Bazaar
Fantasy Legal Exhibitions
This post also appears on the Socio-Legal Studies Association Blog. A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions was held on 18 and 19 July of 2023, organised Victoria Barnes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris and funded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and Kent Law School. The aim of the event was to explore exhibition as… Continue reading Fantasy Legal Exhibitions
Evidencing + combatting hate crime in India: concepts, mindsets, processes
Figure 1: Collaborative prototyping (c) Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2019. How might designerly practices such as collaborative prototyping help academics and activists in India work together to evidence and combat hate crime? This is the question at the heart of a collaboration between Mohsin Alam Bhat, Joanna Perry and Amanda Perry-Kessaris which is generously supported by the… Continue reading Evidencing + combatting hate crime in India: concepts, mindsets, processes
Making unity from and for diversity: The IEL Pop-Up Collection
The IEL Pop Up Collection was designed to ‘make unity from and for diversity’, visibly and tangibly, and with prefigurative spirit.
Workshop: making sociolegal research visible and tangible
We invite you to attend a workshop devoted to reframing your current sociolegal research project using design-based strategies, and in so doing to improve your abilities to explain (ask: how?), to generate (ask: why?) and to speculate (ask: what if?) in relation to it. In this one day hands-on workshop you will make three types… Continue reading Workshop: making sociolegal research visible and tangible
Sociolegal model making 8: Pop-Up Museum of Legal Objects
This is the last in a series of eight experiments investigating how model making can be used in sociolegal research processes. As these experiments have progressed I have come to realise that my intention is to understand how we can, and why we might, make sociolegal research ‘visible and tangible’. This experiment is similar to,… Continue reading Sociolegal model making 8: Pop-Up Museum of Legal Objects
In pursuit of the copper ox-hide ingot
My first encounter with ox-hide ingots was on the cover of a specialist economic history text. Cyprus is home to the largest deposits of copper ore in the Mediterranean region, concentrated around the Trodoos mountains. I came face-to-face with, and became attached to, my ox-hide ingot during an experiment in object-based brainstorming that I conducted in… Continue reading In pursuit of the copper ox-hide ingot
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