Monthly Hybrid Conversations

Social Practice Lab X KUBU
Teresa Dillon

What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world. Water and Stone.
– Ursula Le Guin, Tao Te Ching, (1997, p.43)

The Social Practice Lab at Winchester School of Art, in partnership with the community arts group KUBU (Finland), invites you to tune into our Elemental Threads Hybrid Conversation series.

Our monthly sessions kick off in March with a focus on the element of water, with each conversation bring us into deeper concord with this vital force, often described as the “matrix of life.” Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, the series spans ocean justice and governance, hydropolitics, the fluid mechanics of computer circuits, to the weaponisation of water and the breath-holding experiences of a free-diver.

Conversations with guests are moderated by Prof Teresa Dillon, convenor of the Social Practice Lab, at Winchester School of Art and curator of the Elemental Threads programme.

2026 WATER

20.2. 13.30 GMT 2026, Theme introduction: Water
26.3. 13.30 GMT March: with Dr. Giulia Champion, University of Southampton
16.4. 13.30 GMT April: with Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.
21.5. 13.30 GMT May: with (TBD)
25.6. 13.30 GMT June: (TBD)
16.7. 13.30 GMT July: (TBD)
27.8. 13.30 GMT August: (TBD)
24.9. 13.30 GMT September: Andy Best & Merja Puustinen, Imagining Godzilla
22.10. 13.30 GMT October: (TBD)
10.12. 13.30 GMT December: (TBD)