THE HARD, THE SOFT AND THE WEIRD
Les Ateliers d’Exploration Spéculative

Is hardness always rigid? Is flexibility necessarily soft? Is fluidity necessarily liquid? Should we persist in solidifying everything, or on the contrary, strive to liquefy everything? What urgently needs to be made more flexible? At what point do we tip into the realm of the weird? How do we distinguish between the persistence of hardness, the promises of flexibility or viscosity, and the risks of the weird? This workshop proposes to explore and develop the visual representations of hardness, flexibility, and the weird, in engineering, design, science fiction, and far beyond, in all their forms and states, without creative or disciplinary limits. Through performative readings of texts, viewings of cinematic, literary, or choreographic works, the implementation of experiments and scenarios, and encounters with artisans, artists, designers, researchers, and experimenters who explore the properties of the transient states of matter, whatever its nature. For its second year, the MHP will offer regular meetings in the form of debates and explorations of the subject matter.

November 6 - 6 p.m.: Are robots an endangered species?
Debate with José Halloy (physicist, Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Energies of Tomorrow, University Paris Cité) and Gregorio Ameyugo (engineer, head of the Ambient Intelligence and Interactive Systems department, CEA-List),

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THE HARD, THE SOFT AND THE WEIRD
Les Ateliers d’Exploration Spéculative
ENSCI, 46 Rue Saint-Sabin, 75010 Paris – Salle Charlotte Perriand
In person or by videoconference
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