A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions will be held on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 July, 2023 in central London. Organisers: Victoria Barnes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris Funded by: Socio-Legal Studies Association and Kent Law School Exhibitions range widely in form, including from spontaneous pop-up to enduring archive, material to digital, and localised… Continue reading Fantasy Legal Exhibitions
Category: objects
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 eight in a series of experiments (first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh) 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… Continue reading Sociolegal model making 8: Pop-Up Museum of Legal Objects
Sociolegal model making 7: object-based commentary in a curated space
Sociolegal model making 7: Object-based commentary in a curated setting from Amanda Perry-Kessaris on Vimeo. This is the seventh in a series of experiments (see here for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth) 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… Continue reading Sociolegal model making 7: object-based commentary in a curated space
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
Sociolegal model making 6: place-holding
https://vimeo.com/199899293 This is the sixth in a series of experiments (see the first, second, third, fourth and fifth) investigating how modelling can be used in sociolegal research processes. I am a sociolegal researcher seeking to generate insights that are both theoretically informed and empirically grounded. Almost all my research includes qualitative, semi-structured interviews that are always time consuming and expensive to complete and sometimes awkward. But they are also usually extremely… Continue reading Sociolegal model making 6: place-holding
Legal Object Workshop 2017
This one day workshop is funded by Kent Law School, is part of the Legal Treasure Project and takes place at the British Museum in London on 10.03.17. The workshop is coordinated by Amanda Perry-Kessaris with Lisa Dickson, Luis Eslava, Sydney Parfitt and Sophie Vigneron. Each participant will present an object from the collection, locating it within their own research agenda as well as addressing wider questions posed by its… Continue reading Legal Object Workshop 2017
Object-based econosociolegal brainstorming
Room 72 at The British Museum I used a visit to Room 72: Ancient Cyprus at the British Museum to experiment with a spot of object-based econosociolegal brainstorming. My aim was to use the objects as prompts for rapid reflections on the econosociolegal past, present and future of Cyprus, particularly in the context of the current… Continue reading Object-based econosociolegal brainstorming
Exploring the potential of materials to ‘fire imagination’ and ‘advance conceptualisation’
Fellow MA Graphic Media Design student Andy Renmei and I were tasked with conducting an interview exploring key issues that are shaping current and future design practices. Intention We are both interested in the theme of social transformation (in relation to completely different fields: genome editing / and econosociolegal peace-building respectively). We began reading about speculative design, the… Continue reading Exploring the potential of materials to ‘fire imagination’ and ‘advance conceptualisation’
Amanda Perry-Kessaris 