Grounding Practice: Leila Dear

Book ticket

Tue 29 Nov 2022

18.45 – 21.00

£8

Lancaster Rooms

New Wing

Part of Somerset House Studios

In this Grounding Practice workshop Generative Geometry: Building the fractal pyramid, participants will explore how geometric structure underpins our world through a series of practical exercises led by Jerwood Somerset House Studios artist in residence Leila Dear. 

Inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, the workshop probes strategies and archetypes observed throughout the natural world, from microcosm to macrocosm. Discovering these principles for ourselves through play develops an embodied understanding and an experiential basis for future design strategies. After collectively building a fractal pyramid and geodesic dome, the session will end with a reflection. How might the structural propositions we have encountered inspire and empower us to create a world which balances our needs - current, collective, and future? 

About Leila Dear

Leila Dear is a British-Iranian artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice looks at ways of engaging with the structures of the natural world. Often working with geometric techniques from the Islamic tradition and elemental phenomena such as pure vibration, she explores commonalities between art and science and ideas of a beyond human, natural, intelligence.

Grounded in a research practice that reads science fiction alongside scripture, feminist histories, cybernetics, and design science, her work seeks to cultivate an embodied understanding of nature’s patterns, kinship, and transcendence of individual perspective.

A photo of audience members at an event at Somerset House. The audience looks thoughtful and engaged.

Part of Grounding Practice

A rolling programme shaped by and for creative practitioners and critical thinkers.