A sketch for a new artwork - an interactive tablecloth that supports convivial gatherings around seasonality and kinship.

 

Rituals and Robots

Rituals and Robots is a new project being developed by the artist Rachel Jacobs, building a platform for participatory engagement that brings people together to consider the future. Inviting thinking, participation and making in response to the question “what will we need when the future comes?”

Through a process of research & development the project aims to create:

  • 3 new interactive ‘slow’ sustainable artworks, that embed technology, data and narratives into textiles, clay, food, metal & wood, each acting as a ‘totem’, ‘punctum’ or ‘trigger point’ for public interventions and convivial gatherings
  • An ethical, sustainable & trustworthy online space, building an informal community to share ideas & positive visions of the future through short stories, essays, videos and recorded conversations.
  • 7 public workshops & convivial gatherings to take place across 4 regions in England
  • A final event in Nottingham