IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning

On Tuesday 4th May we will be hosting an IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning, where we will welcome current IAS Residential Fellows Professor Tim Parsons & Ms Jessica Charlesworth.

Coffee mornings are also an opportunity for Loughborough colleagues to come along and discuss with the IAS team, potential applications for funding before submitting. To ensure understanding of, and alignment with, the IAS.

Please feel free to book using the button below, to come along and join us for an informal in-person gathering at International House with coffee and cakes to meet our Fellows, all are welcome.

Professor Tim Parsons & Ms Jessica Charlesworth, Art and design studio Parsons & Charlesworth

Parsons & Charlesworth is an art and design laboratory that brings speculative scenarios into physical form. Co-founded by Chicago based, British artists and designers, Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons their collaborative worldbuilding projects challenge viewers to reconsider their relationships with technology and ecology while addressing pressing concerns including the climate crisis and the future of work. The studio creates visually provocative objects, installations and digital media that invite viewers into meticulously crafted and designed alternate realities.

Their award winning project Catalog for the Post-Human has appeared internationally in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Walker Art Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Science Gallery Monterrey. They have exhibited at the MAAT in Lisbon, Media Majlis Museum Qatar, Science Gallery Dublin, piknic (Seoul), Istanbul Design Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), London Design Festival and the Chicago Cultural Center.