KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
This year at the School of Media and Communication students, academics and industry came together to form a new collective as a knowledge exchange using the philosophy of the Anti-fragile.
As part of this event students, academics and industry used the ethos of the anti-fragile to co-create ‘The Anti-fragile Collective Manifesto’ and collectively ‘takeover’ the entire Lime Grove campus.
The term Anti-fragile comes from the philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book ‘Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder’. The Anti-fragile is beyond resilience, it uses chaos and the unknown as a catalyst for growth and transformation.
The campus was transformed into a platform for creative activations including: a projectionmapped immersive installation that highlighted vulnerability as a catharsis for transformation, to an architected ‘experience’ that incites feelings of ‘emergence’ through visual cues and bespoke sound pieces, notably familiar to the darker side of human vulnerabilities.
The Anti-fragile Collective began in January 2020 as a Knowledge Exchange initiative with Year 1 students in the School of Media and Communication and culminated as a takeover event with creative agency SUPERIMPOSE.
The presentation closed with an immersive ‘ritual’ encouraging self-control, reflection and acceptance.
