Spring Encounters 2024: Fun as Methodology

We are pleased to invite you to Spring Encounters 2024: Fun as Methodology

Spring Encounters provides a platform for researchers, activists and artists to connect in a relaxed setting of informal conversations and action. Its purpose is to break the boundaries of disciplines and institutions, creating cracks for open dialogue and the sprouting of ideas. The 2023 edition of Spring Encounters demonstrated how grounding praxis in place, community, and their politics is critical for catalysing transformative change. The relationships we established in those encounters have become vital to our current actions.

By reflecting on how we designed and facilitated APR activities within and beyond Spring Encounters we realised the central role of fun in creating and enjoying shared learning practices that are inviting, inspiring and energising. Provoked by how fun fuels our own radical imaginations, at Spring Encounters 2024: Fun as Methodology we will explore and discuss how fun can drive the ways we come to know and what we consider valuable to know about when performing praxis.

Through the experimentation with fun methods ranging from radio to leisure, we invite you for another series of engagements with radical communities and places to continue nurturing actions and relations.  Our program is supported by Monash Graduate Association (MGA).

The events date are:

• 21 September | Radio as method: Sound Storytelling
• 04 October | Paste-up as method: Spreading ideas without permission
• 18 October | Food as method: a dumpster-dive cooking competition
• 30 October |  Zines as method: More-than-human collaborations
• 16 November | Leisure as method: A Swim in the Birrarung

Check descriptions in our website!