Umbrellium

29/12/2023

Newsletter 013 - Co-creations & Interactions: https://tinyletter.com/Umbrellium/letters/what-a-busy-year-read-our-013-newsletter-co-creations-interactions

Our thirteenth newsletter is now available, encapsulating a year brimming with participatory design, multispecies conversations, and community-led projects. From the Great Ormond Street Hospital's new entrance designed with patients and AI, to the cultural probing of the "State-less 無國界" exhibition, and engaging communities in low carbon cuisines, our latest newsletter is filled with insights on interactive and participatory practices.
Read our latest newsletter, Co-creations & Interactions, to explore stories of intersections between people, technology, and the environment that have marked our journey this year.

Image: GOSH entrance project detail

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11/12/2023

21/09/2023

This Saturday, Ling Tan and Usman Haque are hosting a More-Than-Human Citizen Assembly, an immersive participatory interactive fiction workshop, for Festa do Outono at Fundação de Serralves, in Porto, Portugal.

This two-part workshop festival attendees and plant and tree species to explore the impacts of the climate emergency. Participants first map and record their perceptions of specific park flora using a mobile web app. Later, data feeds into an AI interface, enabling 'conversations' with other species. The workshop culminates in a multispecies 'Citizen Assembly,' involving humans and park species to discuss the future.

Join us from 10.30am to 12.30pm at Parque de Serralves.
Suitable for all ages. Please, bring a mobile phone with internet access for mapping.

More information here:https://cdn.bndlyr.com/nsa343pdfl/_assets/2309_fo_brochuraprograma_site.pdf [PDF]

Thank you INOVA+ and S+T+ARTS for supporting the workshop.

20/09/2023

Tomorrow at 6 pm, Usman Haque and Ling Tan will participate in Design District's "Ai or Die" event. The discussion, chaired by Will Jennings, will also feature panellists Munkhtulga Battogtokh and Gareth Edward. Together they will explore the significant questions surrounding the future of humans (and beyond) in relation to AI, and vice versa.

Tickets are still available: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fourthspace-x-design-district-present-ai-or-die-tickets-676787598927?aff=oddtdtcreator

The renowned Negroni Talks are coming to Design District to ask important questions about the growing role of AI in culture and design.

11/09/2023

11/09/2023

Newsletter 012 - Blurring Spaces: https://tinyletter.com/Umbrellium/letters/umbrellium-012-blurring-spaces

Our twelfth newsletter is out and filled with stories from our latest endeavours. The last few months have been teeming with projects and reflections. We included a shortlist announcement with Climate Art, a project blurring physical and digital realms with Great Ormond Street Hospital and Children's Charity, and another facilitating a residency exploring interactions and interfaces with the non-human world with collaborators at the Institute of Business Management, and more examples on designing for engagement and empowerment.

22/09/2022

We’ve been hard at work and only just got round to updating our website with two of our recent projects::

🌿 Re:Wild Royal Docks (2021) in collaboration with Eden Lab in association with Eden Project [https://umbrellium.co.uk/projects/rewild/] - a ten-year vision for transforming East London through urban wilding supported by a digital masterplan.

🌬Pollution Explorers Collective Action (2021) [https://umbrellium.co.uk/projects/pollution-explorers-collective-action/] funded by a .uk Collective Intelligence grant - a participatory project demonstrating the double impact potential of collective intelligence in tackling air pollution.

Click on the links for more information and let us know your thoughts and experience on the website.

Ten-year vision for urban wilding in East London

20/09/2022

Join us TOMORROW at the London Design Festival talk ‘Shaping Ecological Futures’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Our founder Usman_Haque will join the conversation with Dr Neil Strong, Andrew Grant, Sue Morgan and Hattie Hartman and discuss ideas towards creating a more positive and optimistic future considering ecological boundaries and climate change impacts.

More information and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-ecological-futures-tickets-399608478717?aff=erel

Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on

16/09/2022

TOMORROW - Ling Tan’s Low Carbon Chinatown pop up inauguration!

Join us in a series of sit down tastings featuring low carbon Chinese dishes developed by East and Southeast Asian communities in London, food writers and a data scientist, part of the Design Festival.

Date: 17th-20th September
Location: Newport Place, London WC2H 7PU
Timing of sit down meals each day: 1:30-2:30pm / 3:30-4:30pm / 5:30-6:30pm

Come join us in tackling the Climate Crisis with food and cooking! To get your tickets to one of the sit down meals, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/low-carbon-chinatown-pop-up-sit-down-meals-tickets-404735624147

Video by Arts Now

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Low Carbon Chinatown is a project by Ling Tan, produced by Chinese Arts Now. The low carbon pop up structure is designed by Ling Tan and designer Usman Haque, with the support of structural engineers One, and and fabricated by Campbell Inglis Hall [https://www.campbellinglishall.com/]. Production managed by Nick Murray [http://www.nickmurray.horse/]

15/09/2022

-2 days until the Low Carbon Chinatown pop up inauguration!

Learn more about Chinese culture and cuisine with a reduced environmental impact. Join our Senior Designer, Ling Tan, in a series of sit down tastings featuring low carbon Chinese dishes, such as wontons with a reduced footprint, and many more. All dishes were developed by East and Southeast Asian communities in London, food writers and data scientists.

Date: 17th-20th September
Location: Newport Place, London WC2H 7PU
Timing of sit down meals each day: 1:30-2:30pm / 3:30-4:30pm / 5:30-6:30pm

Join us in tackling the Climate Crisis with food and cooking! To get your tickets to one of the sit down meals, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/low-carbon-chinatown-pop-up-sit-down-meals-tickets-404735624147

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Low Carbon Chinatown is a project by Ling Tan, produced by Chinese Arts Now. The low carbon pop up structure is designed by Ling Tan and designer Usman Haque, with the support of structural engineers One, and and fabricated by Campbell Inglis Hall [https://www.campbellinglishall.com/]. Production managed by Nick Murray [http://www.nickmurray.horse/]

15/09/2022

How are we going to meet the needs of our society without compromising the rights of future generations and planetary ecosystems?

Join us at the London Design Festival talk ‘Shaping Ecological Futures’ on 21st September at the . Our founder Usman Haque will join the conversation with Dr Neil Strong, Andrew Grant, Sue Morgan and Hattie Hartman and discuss ideas towards creating a more positive and optimistic future considering ecological boundaries and climate change impacts.

More information and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-ecological-futures-tickets-399608478717?aff=erelexpmlt

In conversation with Dr Neil Strong, Andrew Grant, Usman Haque, Sue Morgan and Hattie Hartman | Supported By ExploreStation

14/09/2022

Everyone is invited to join our Senior Designer Ling Tan at the Low Carbon Chinatown pop up event that will take place at Newport Place, Chinatown on 17-20th September.

Join us in a series of sit down tastings featuring low carbon Chinese dishes developed by East and Southeast Asian communities in London, food writers and a data scientist!

🎫 More information and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/low-carbon-chinatown-pop-up-sit-down-tastings-tickets-404735624147

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On 17th-20th September, Ling Tan and Chinese Arts Now will be staging a series of delicious, interactive and informative sit down tastings and short talks over four days in the heart of London’s Chinatown – featuring no less than three tasty low carbon dishes chosen and developed by London’s East and South East Asian communities alongside a data scientist and acclaimed Asian food writers MiMi Aye, Uyen Luu and Shu Han Lee.

A pop-up structure will be installed in London Chinatown as part of London Design Festival. Built from low carbon materials and processes, the structure will host a series of sit-down tastings, discussions and talks on the data science of climate change, Chinese heritage and food culture. The low carbon pop up structure is designed by Ling Tan and Usman Haque, with the support of structural engineers Atelier One.

Low Carbon Chinatown is a project by Ling Tan, produced by Chinese Arts Now.

Food photography by Uyen Luu. Styling by Sam Dixon.

Join us in a series of sit down tastings featuring low carbon Chinese dishes developed by East & Southeast Asian communities & food writers