A look back at Here talks of previous years – #1 Stuart Wood

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25 February 2015
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Our fourth annual Here symposium takes place in the summer and in the run-up to the event we’ll be looking at some of the stellar speakers who’ve graced the stage in previous years. Here is all about insight and inspiration, through accessible and enlightening talks from an international array of artists and designers, from big names to cutting-edge practitioners. Over the next few weeks the It’s Nice That team will be flagging up some of their favourite talks from the past three years, starting with Editor-in-Chief Rob Alderson to wax lyrical about rAndom International’s Stuart Wood…

Rob Alderson

“Every year there are certain talks at Here that take me by surprise on the day; speakers who I was looking forward to but whose sessions absolutely blow me away. In 2013, that person was Stuart Wood of rAndom International. The design collective’s Rain Room at The Barbican was one of those exciting moments where something from the art world crosses into mainstream cultural consciousness. But what I didn’t know was how much the installation was the logical evolution of rAndom’s longstanding interest in combining technology and public participation, and hearing Stuart talk about the groups’s work past and present was exciting, illuminating and compelling.”

Here 2015 takes place on Friday 12 June and the confirmed speakers are digital guru Iain Tait, artist and designer Scott King, SHOWstudio editor Lou Stoppard, photographic duo Blommers Schumm, karlssonwilker’s Hjalti Karlsson and ManvsMachine founder Mike Alderson.

We’ll also be welcoming set designer Anna Lomax, illustrator Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, graphic designer Charlotte Heal and Nathan Cowen and Jacob Klein, the brains behind Haw-lin.

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Stuart Wood at Here 2013

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Stuart Wood at Here 2013

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Stuart Wood at Here 2013

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