<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">~hotwire~ presents </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:32px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">T(h)inkering unSymposium</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">18th June 2016 | 10.00am - 7.30pm</span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/UDIn-x2x22DKJ5UhvPABQik0s6dN3UUyh_81gmnWsyIimQ8xACNwpfZvpBB5ATTJw0UkjFBRsioY8rVrhRlRpofiFyQm7zcSwHMJ2ZzP2ETuqy7Cioc7-Z-bSfo9WHZGFCWbM4iH" width="602" height="301" alt="thinkeringBanner.png" style="border: none;"></span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinkering-unsymposium-tickets-24919962278?ref=enivtefor001&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inviteformalv2&ref=enivtefor001&utm_term=attend" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/0FQlRxxEV96X29E7NIyMAUrbZCzKN8JyIbn7wAezYX2lrhRe6XRtvBg-MQHyLqpFzcelvgaSQR6CwtSMo84dgoGDSKULbCGNjA0ayZvBJnCQAYLYEh8uVAHs3wcVse_G7NFJ_94w" width="151" height="57" alt="Screen Shot 2016-04-26 at 10.51.15.png" style="border: none;"></a></span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This event explores the theme of t(h)inkering—a practice that brings together tinkering and thinking—in the contexts of living coding, hardware hacking, the maker movement, media archaeology and design.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How can working with, making, reflecting on, subverting and performing with tools and materials inspire new perspectives and approaches to knowledge? Thinkering raises issues around doing-it- yourself (DIY) versus doing-it- with-others (DIWO); ecology and obsolescence; and the tensions between signs and signals; aesthetics and tools, ontology and epistemology.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If thinkering suggests new ways of approaching knowledge, practice-based research, art and aesthetics, it also upend assumptions about academia as a gate-keeper of knowledge, pointing to the proliferation of maker/hacker labs, workshops and vernacular engagement with tools and materials. What can thinkering tell us about the world?</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Share this event on </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A//www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinkering-unsyposium-tickets-24919962278%3Fref%3Desfb" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=https%3A//www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinkering-unsyposium-tickets-24919962278%3Fref%3Destw" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter</span></a></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope you can make it.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">~hotwire~ and Artistic Research with Plymouth University</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The event will be held at: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ocean Studios, The Factory Cooperage, Royal William Yard, Plymouth. PL1 3RP. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=The+Factory+Cooperage,+Plymouth,+DEVON+PL1+3RP+United+Kingdom&hl=en" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none">You can view a map here.</a></span></p></div>