Below are listed a number of events organised by Alex Wilkie, often in collaboration with other scholars and designers.
Book Launches
18th October 2023. Design for more-than-human futures: Towards post-anthropocentric worlding (Routledge). Book launch and masterclass. Goldsmiths, University of London.
27th July 2018. Energy Babble (Mattering Press). EASST 2018 Conference : Making Science and Technology Together. Lancaster University.
13th June 2017. Speculative Research Day, a one-day worksop and launch of Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures (Routledge, CRESC series). Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-organised with Martin Savransky, Marsha Rosengarten and Michael Guggenheim.
18th & 19th February 2016. Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies and Displacement (Routledge, CRESC series). Goldsmiths and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Co-organised with Ignacio Farías.
Conferences
29th – 30th May 2014. Inventing the Social: Celebrating ten years of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process. Co-organised with Noortje Marres and Michael Guggenheim.
24th September 2010. Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom. Co-organised with Bill Gaver, Mike Michael, Jennifer Gabrys, Nina Wakeford, and Tobie Kerridge.
Conference Tracks
25th June – 3rd July 2022. Doing and Undoing Post-Anthropocentric Design. DRS 2022 Bilbao, Spain. Co-organised with Li Jönsson, Martín Tironi and Pablo Hermansen.
2nd – 3rd June 2022. What worlds do workshops world? DASTS (Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies) 2022 Aarhus, Denmark. Co-organised with Peter Danholt, Michael Guggenheim & Mike Michael.
6th – 9th October 2021. Re-thinking And Experimenting With Participatory Research Practices And Design Through The Speculative And Ontological Turn. 4S Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. Co-organised with Peter Danholt (Aarhus University).
31st August – 3rd September 2016. The Event of the Public: Convolutions of Aesthetic and Epistemic Practice. 4S/EASST Conference Barcelona 2016: Science & technology by other means. Co-organised with Mike Michael, Gay Hawkins and Kane Race.
27th-30th June 2016. Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics and Design. Introduction: Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics and Design. in: P. Lloyd & E. Bohemia, eds., Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society – Future-Focused Thinking, Volume 3, pp 873-879, DOI 10.21606/drs.2016.509, ISSN 2398-3132.
23rd-25th April 2014. Speculation in Social Science: Novel Methods for Re-Inventing Problems. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2014, University of Leeds, UK. Organised with Marsha Rosengarten, Jennifer Gabrys, Michael Halewood and Martin Savransky.
17-20 October 2012 Studio Studies: Ethnographies of Creative Production ‘Design and displacement – social studies of science and technology’. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Co-organised with Ignacio Farías.
17-20 October 2012 Design, STS and Cosmopolitics: From Intervention to Emergence in Participation and Sustainability ‘Design and displacement – social studies of science and technology’. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Co-organised with Carl DiSalvo, Tobie Kerridge, Jennifer Gabrys, Bill Gaver, Mike Michael.
2nd-4th September 2010 Speculation, Design, Public and Participatory Technoscience: Possibilities and Critical Perspectives. EASST 2010: Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social. Trento, Italy. Co-organised with Carl DiSalvo and Tobie Kerridge.
Exhibitions
November – December 2016. Energy Babble. In: “Climactic: Post Normal Design“, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States.
4th – 6th September 2015. The Dewey Organ Project. In: “Imagination Festival”, Govanhill Baths, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015. Energy Babble. Experimental Thinking / Design Practices. In: “Experimental Thinking / Design Practices“, Griffith University Art Gallery, Australia.
11th – 30th May 2015. Energy Babble in Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design. In: “Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design”, Melbourne International Design Festival, Australia.
28th June – 1st July 2015. Web Science 2015. In: “Web Science 2015 Conference Exhibition”, Web Sci ’15, United Kingdom.
3rd December 2015 – 20th March 2016. The Prayer Companion. In: “Big Bang Data“, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom.
9th May — 16th November 2014. The Prayer Companion. In: “Big Bang Data“, Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Spain.
2014. “Feral Experimental“, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
26th June – 28th June 2014. Energy Babble. In: “A Sense of Energy”, The White Building, London, United Kingdom.
30th September – 2nd October 2014. A Sense Of Energy: Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities. In: “A Sense of Energy”, The Welsh Assembly, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
26th – 28th June 2014. Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities. In: “A Sense of Energy”, The White Building, London, United Kingdom.
30th September – 2nd October 2014. Energy Babble. In: “A Sense of Energy”, The Senedd, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
29th June to 15th July 2007. The Curious Home. In: “The Curious Home“, Pacific Playhouse, London, United Kingdom.
Workshops, Seminars & Seminar Series
Thursday 25th June, Friday 26th June, Tuesday 30th June, Wednesday 1st July 2020. Adventures in Aesthetics: Rethinking Aesthetics Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. An online workshop organised by Melanie Sehgal & Alex Wilkie. Goldsmiths, University of London.
Tuesday February 18th 2020. Creating Better Visualisations With STS. A one-day workshop organised with Michael Guggenheim & Isaac Marrero-Guillamón and hosted by CISP, Goldsmiths, University of London.
28th July 2018. (Better) Visualisations for keeping things together & apart. EASST2018 Making Science, Technology and Society Together. Co-convened with Michael Guggenheim. Lancaster University.
Tuesday September 20th 2016. The New Experimentalisms. A one day workshop at CISP/Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London 2016, 10-5pm. Organised with Michael Guggenheim and Dan Neyland.
4th of November 2015. Practice Research: Biographies, Beginnings and Futures. AHRC Design Star Doctoral training event. Goldsmiths, University of London.
4th March 2015, 16:30 – 18:30 Diagrams and Play: from Schiller to Deleuze, via Beethoven with Kamini Vellodi. Discussant Alex Wilkie and chaired by Marsha Rosengarten. Laurie Grove Baths, Goldsmiths, University of London.
November 2013 – May 2014: Data Practices: Design and Social Science Seminar Series, Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-organised with Jennifer Gabrys, Evelyn Ruppert and Noortje Marres.
June 17th 2013, Designing The Future: Cosmopolitical Interventions. A one-day ESRC workshop exploring design as an anticipatory practice. Part of: Austerity Futures? Imagining and materialising the future in an “age of austerity”. Co-organised with Nina Wakeford and Michael Guggenheim.
May 16th 2012 Doing Intervention and Enacting the ‘Everyday’: How Users Figure in Innovation Projects. Goldsmiths, University of London.
November 2010 – May 2012. Energies, Communities, Practices. Design and Social Science Seminar Series, Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-organised with Tobie Kerridge, Bill Gaver and Mike Michael.
October 2009 – March 2010. The Objects of Design and Social Science. Design and Social Science Seminar Series, Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-organised with Tobie Kerridge, Bill Gaver and Mike Michael.
October 2008 – December 2008. Design and Social Science. Design and Social Science Seminar Series, Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-organised with Bill Gaver and Mike Michael.
May 5th 2004. Workshop on Sociology and Design. Goldsmiths, University of London. With Celia Lury and Andrew Barry.