Roco Creative Co-op http://www.theroco.org Studios, retail, cafe bar, gallery Tue, 30 May 2017 12:26:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 TALK & PERFORMANCE: Kris Halpin and Vahakn Matossian http://www.theroco.org/2017/05/22/talk-performance-kris-halpin-and-vahakn-matossian/ Mon, 22 May 2017 16:05:43 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1647

EVENT: Kris Halpin and Vahakn Matossian. MI:MU Glove and Human Instruments
DATE: 15.06.2017
TIME: 6 –9pm
FREE limited places booking essential

Join us for talks and performaces by Kris Halpin and Vahakn Matossian from Mi:mu Gloves and Human Instruments.

Kris Halpin

Kris is a singer, a songwriter, a producer and technologist. As well as his band, Winter Of ’82, he works to innovate at the intersection between music and disability.

He performs with Imogen Heap’s groundbreaking mi.mu gloves, furthering their use as accessible music technology. He also leads workshops and talks on music and disability, and works with music and disability charities Drake Music, Attitude Is Everything and HemiHelp to further enable disabled musicians, and amplify the conversation around music and disability.

Kris Halpin website

Human Instruments

Together with his father, the composer Rolf Gehlhaar, Vahakn Matossian-Gehlhaar formed Human Instruments, a company dedicated to the design and production of digital musical instrument interfaces for people with varying physical ability. They are developing the world’s first commercially available, hands-free instrument that will give its player total musical freedom of expression, with a resolution of sound as close as possible to traditional orchestral instruments.

Vahakn will be talking about the process of developing new musical instruments and performing with one of the devices he’s built using open source hardware and sensors, which allow musicians to use alternative gestures to perform live expressive music.

Human Instruments website

This event will be held in the event space in BROOD cafe bar. Tickets are limited to 50

Learn more about the exhibition The Body Electric here

The Body Electric. This exhibition and event series is created in partnership between Roco Creative Coop and Lighthouse, and is supported by The City of Making.

]]> WORKSHOP: Fixperts problem solving with the power of design http://www.theroco.org/2017/05/22/workshop-fixperts-problem-solving-with-the-power-of-design/ Mon, 22 May 2017 15:07:36 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1657

EVENT: Fixperts problem solving with the power of design
DATE: 17.06.2017
TIME: 10am –4pm
FREE limited places booking essential

Join us in these exciting workshops where we’ll be using design to solve real world problems.

For 8-14 year olds and limited to 12 places per session, this is a great oppertunity to use creativity to investigate and come up with solutions to real people’s problems. What they say: “We’re helping build the next generation of designers, engineers, inventors, technologists, artists, dreamers and change makers. We want to ensure their hands are skilled and their hearts and minds are engaged.”

We are running two workshops:

Morning: 10:30am–12:30pm
Afternoon: 1:30pm–3:30pm

This workshop is for 8-14 years old ONLY. We invite all parents and adults to join us in the café bar and explore the exhibition while they wait. Places are very limited; please book your free place well in advance.

Fixperts

Fixperts is about Fixing for someone. It is a creative social campaign and design education programme that encourages people who are good at making and repair to fix for real people with real problems. The Fixpert and the Fix Partner work together to design, prototype and make quick, cheap and sustainable solutions to everyday problems.

This workshop will introduce you to a problem, then get you working in teams to sketch, prototype and test solutions to fix it.

Fixperts offers the opportunity to engage with a design process from start to finish, and to have first-hand experience of the power of design to improve people’s everyday lives.

Workshop leader: Maya Alvarado

Maya is a product designer and was the inaugural Fixperts Resident at Benchmark Furniture last year. She was based remotely in the company’s workshops repairing and fixing things for the Benchmark community and their neighbours. Currently she is bringing all that experience to facilitating Fixperts in universities and schools.

Learn more about the exhibition The Body Electric here

The Body Electric. This exhibition and event series is created in partnership between Roco Creative Coop and Lighthouse, and is supported by The City of Making.

Accessibility: Roco is based across 7 listed terraced houses with steps. We have disabled access at the rear of the building off Hounsfield Lane. If you need assitance please feel free to contact us.

 

]]> TALK: Thomas Thwaites: Goatman http://www.theroco.org/2017/05/22/talk-thomas-thwaites-goatman/ Mon, 22 May 2017 15:00:05 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1669
Photograph: Tim Bowditch

TALK: Thomas Thwaites: Goatman
DATE: 29.06.2017
TIME: 7 –9pm
FREE limited places booking essential

Join us for an evening with Thomas Thwaites for his talk — GoatMan, or a holiday from being human.

Thomas Thwaites is a designer whose works variously explore economic, philosophical or techno-social across many subjects; biology, economics, philosophy, and materials science.

‘The Toaster Project’ has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum for their permanent collection, and, a narrative book explaining the project was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010 to critical acclaim, and has now been translated into Korean and Japanese editions.

In his project, GoatMan, he designed an exoskeleton that would enable him to ‘become’ a goat: “I tried to become a goat to escape the angst inherent in being a human. The project became an exploration of how close modern technology can take us to fulfilling an ancient human dream: to take on characteristics from other animals. But instead of the ferocity of a bear, or the perspective of a bird, the characteristic most useful in modern life is something else; being present in the moment perhaps.”

This event will be held in the event space in BROOD cafe bar.

Learn more about the exhibition The Body Electric here

The Body Electric. This exhibition and event series is created in partnership between Roco Creative Coop and Lighthouse, and is supported by The City of Making.

Accessibility: Roco is based across 7 listed terraced houses with steps. We have disabled access at the rear of the building off Hounsfield Lane. If you need assitance please feel free to contact us.

]]> TALK: Site Sessions. The New Economies http://www.theroco.org/2017/05/22/site-sessions-the-new-economies/ Mon, 22 May 2017 11:21:09 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1630

EVENT: SITE SESSIONS: THE NEW ECONOMIES
DATE: 25.05.2017
TIME: 7 –9pm
TICKETS £8/ 5 concession via Site

We are excited to welcome Site to Roco as part of their Site Session series of events across the city. Join us on Thursday evening for a insightful and inquisitive look into the world of art and money.

From Site Session: Creative practice can be a powerful tool for change, but how do artists relate to economies and money, and is digital improving the picture? Andy Warhol stated that ‘good business is the best art’. Do we agree and embrace this idea? In this turbulent global moment, it’s time for a fresh and constructive look at art’s role in economies.

Join our experts from the worlds of economics, finance and the digital and creative industries, for an evening of inspirational and provocative talks, demos and discussion around these themes.

THE NEW ECONOMIES SPEAKERS:

Leigh Caldwell, Economist at The Irrational Agency
Aden Davies, digital banking expert at 11:FS
Katie Day, Artistic Director of The Other Way Works
Aimee Harrison, founder of Line Cut Supply
Tamar Millen, Digital & Cultural Partnerships at the Sheffield City Council
James Wallbank, founder of Makers on The Edge

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:

Leigh Caldwell
Leigh Caldwell is a behavioural economist and co-founder of The Irrational Agency, a market research firm investigating the consumer’s unconscious mind. His book The Psychology of Priceexplores how successful pricing strategies build on the mind’s workings. Leigh researches cognitive economics, i.e. how people value and trade the intangible concepts inside our heads.

Katie Day
Katie Day is Artistic Director of The Other Way Works, developing work where theatre meets new technologies with the aim of creating magical, immersive experiences. Katie is a 2017 BOM (Birmingham Open Media) Fellow and a Resident of Watershed Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio, and was the winner of the Hello Culture Award in 2014.

Aden Davies
Aden works at 11:FS to make digital banking, not just digitised banking. He is fascinated by how banking and large organisations can be opened up to make them more transparent, collaborative and better. Formerly attempted similar work at HSBC. Aden got a grade C at GCSE Art in 1992.

Aimee Harrison
Aimee Harrison is the founder of Line Cut Supply, a clothing label specialising in high quality, versatile and minimal workwear for women. Her background is in the digital world, working at AKQA in London and Portland with clients including sports giant Nike. She currently works part time in Sheffield as a digital producer.

Tamar Millen
Having recently managed Sheffield’s Year of Making, Tamar is currently working on developing Creative and Cultural Partnerships for SCC. Previous job incarnations have included playing with digital media labs, art radio, digital archives, fundraising and conflict resolution.

James Wallbank
With his wife Lisa, James runs Makers, a high street shop selling crafts, craft workshops and making services. With a background in art, design and research, James is interested in the creative and enterprise potential of crafts and digital manufacture, and wonders whether making really can regenerate communities and re-localise employment.

]]> TALK: Festival of Debate. Housing for All? http://www.theroco.org/2017/05/09/festival-of-debate-housing-for-all/ Tue, 09 May 2017 13:08:29 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1448

EVENT: Festival of Debate: Housing for All? Prospects for a National Movement
DATE: 31.05.17
TIME: 6:30 – 8:30pm
FREE

In association with the Property and Social Justice Network & Inclusive Societies. An event created by Opus Independents.

A private rented sector with high rents and poor conditions, the demolition of public housing in cities like London and a lack of imagination around resolving economic and housing conditions in the North tells us something needs to be done about UK housing. This event is an opportunity to hear ideas about how public housing might offer a way forward.

The Festival of Debate is made up of a series of panel discussions, debates, Q&As, artistic responses and keynote speeches in Sheffield (UK), aiming to create a meaningful dialogue around key social, political and economic issues.
It’s hosted by not-for-profit social enterprise Opus Independents in collaboration with a wide range of partners across Sheffield.

BOOK HERE

]]> WORKSHOPS: Red Eye Hot House Sheffield http://www.theroco.org/2017/05/09/red-eye-hot-house-sheffield/ Tue, 09 May 2017 12:51:51 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1444

EVENT: Redeye Photography HotHouse Sheffield
DATE: 10.06.17
TIME: 10:30am – 4:30pm
FREE

Redeye, the Photography Network, is a not-for-profit Community Benefit Society set up to support photographers at every level, and build networks across photography. It is based in Manchester, UK, and has subscribers and users across the UK and globally

Hothouse arrives in the Steel City in June for a daylong celebration of photographic talent from Yorkshire and beyond. Throughout the day there will be short presentations from photographers about their recent work and projects, plus ample opportunity for networking and portfolio review. You’re welcome to drop in for an hour or two, or stay for the whole event – but please register to be sure of getting a place.

You are also welcome to bring your portfolio or photobook(s) for showing on the day, more details of which can be found here.

This event is free, but booking is essential. Please register via the link below. It is also possible to make a donation at the time of registering, which helps to support our future programme of events.

BOOKING INFO HERE

“Redeye is a leader among a strengthening body of nationally significant photography-focused organisations that address career development for professionals.” – Arts Professional

]]> A Night With Storyteller Tim Ralphs http://www.theroco.org/2017/05/09/1436/ Tue, 09 May 2017 12:08:46 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1436

EVENT: Tales from the Ivory Tower
DATE: 11.05.17
TIME: 6-8pm
FREE

Storyteller Tim Ralphs hosts an evening of tales from Arts and Humanities researchers as they bring to life their research in engaging and entertaining short stories. Join him in Roco from 6pm.

The Festival of Arts and Humanities is a new festival held in and around the University of Sheffield designed to showcase the expertise and research of members of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and engage students, staff and the public in their work.

 

Tickets are free and you can book: here

]]> NETWORK: Ladies, Wine & Design http://www.theroco.org/2017/04/21/network-ladies-wine-design/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:17:53 +0000 http://www.theroco.org/?p=1716

EVENT: Ladies, Wine and Design
DATE: 07.06.2017
TIME: 7 pm till late
FREE but booking essential

Ladies, Wine and a bit of Design is usually a salon night held monthly that is limited to eight creative ladies. However in June they are opening up the event in order to give more creative females an insight to LWD and how it works.

From organiser Jess Yates…. At our Mix & Meet event we’ll wine, dine, and have casual conversations on a wide variety of topics relating to creativity, business, and life. This larger event will give you the chance to mix with other creatives as well as hear from specific creative ladies designing in and around Sheffield.

We have talks planned with the lovely Chloe Lowe from Sheffield & London based design agency Born + Raised and the wonderful Leila Johnston, Digital Curator at Sheffield’s Site Gallery. If you are interested in joining our speakers and given a talk at the event, please email: [email protected]

If you’re a student or creative and would like to join please sign up. It’s free and reservations are first come, first serve.

Sign up here

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