A year of artists, designers, provocateurs and thinkers experimenting with ways we might live, make, work and play.
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Drop in to the Utopia Treasury to see a short documentary film and sculptural dance video art piece by artist Mira Calix.
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Delving deeper into synthetic biology, exploring the applications and ethics of this radical technology through the lens of Food & Pharma.
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The Amateurs Club is a free DIY film school, hosted by Somerset House Studios and Forest Fringe, featuring each month a different professional from the world of film.
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Try your hand at new techniques, skill up and share your vision with Publication Studio, HATO, Aleesha Nandhra and Protest Press.
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Lien-Cheng will teach participants how to build an audio-visual performance with Max MSP.
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This special panel from Dundee, the UK’s first UNESCO City of Design, will explore how games can be used for good.
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The Museum of Architecture brings its hugely popular Gingerbread City exhibition to Somerset House.
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A workshop exploring interactive fiction/text-based gaming as a means of meaningful storytelling.
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Daytimers present a night of music and dance spotlighting the South Asian underground scene.
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Summer Series kicks off in style with superchic French psych-rock collective La Femme bringing the glitz.
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Collect is one of the world’s most influential fairs focusing on contemporary craft and design.
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Join artist and pigment maker Lucy Mayes for an immersive workshop exploring the connection between soil ecology and art.
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Somerset House explores the possibilities of design and invention for radical social and environmental change in a new free exhibition
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Play with a ‘paintbox’ of aromas selected by Odette Toilette, and create your own scent of Utopia. Your creation will be recorded in our book of utopian scents.
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In this installment of the Material Explorations series, Makerversity explore Fantastic Plastic and takes a closer look at how innovations in materials and processes is disrupting what we make & how.
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How have you been coping? This brand-new podcast series explores how impromptu online communities have helped many feel a little less isolated.
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Learn more about Somerset House’s Young Producers' project Decentralise, a new interactive digital platform exploring the history of Black British art at Somerset House.
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