For example: historic, cultural, economic, philosophical, or social perspective of feminisms or zine makers, artists, poets, musicians, makers, hobby-tinkerers, crafters, or circuitry-wizards. We are also looking for dedicated hosts who can bring along knowledges around either feminist theories and/or (creative) practice. Participants can register at this link: .uk We are looking for participants and hosts. Together we will build a collaborative space to engage in discussion and making. The aim of the event is to create a selection of interactive dabble stations addressing various of creative activities and feminist theories. You are invited to take part in Double Dabble: A Feminist Day of Making!ĭouble Dabble is a workshop attempting to bridge feminist theory and practice through the practice of making on the 4th of February 2017 at the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead. In this way, some of the stall hosts were reached not only by the e-mail we sent out via mailing lists, but also through mutual contacts we had. We thought of people whom we thought would be interested in an event like this we also asked them to then share the call further. We also sent some very targeted e-mail to people we already knew (when we did this we used the same e-mail as we sent to mailing lists, but heavily personalised it to the person we were contacting). We shared the Call for Participation with our supervisors and asked them to share it in their own networks, we shared it with Newcastle University and Northumbria University research groups, and asked those to share it among their own networks too. We started off with the FWSA and DEN mailing lists (because that’s where we got our funding), but also made sure to spread it as far and wide as we could. In December, we circulated an e-mail in as many different mailing lists we could think of. We will also include a few sentences on how some of these could be improved. Having said that, below we give you information on the key organisational milestones we passed in the run-up to the first Double Dabble. Obviously, no two events will be the same, and especially with a model such as Double Dabble, the people involved really shape what it’s going to look like. So make that your focus in the planning of the event. So, if you took part in Double Dabble, talked to someone who did, or saw bits and pieces of the event on social media and liked what you saw, we’ve got a treat for you! Double Dabble really is about the people who come – it’s about those who host a stall and prepare the activities, and about the friendly exchange that occurs on the day.
Having said this, we also think that it would be great to run similar events on different topics (ours was quite craft-focused), run by different people, in different places. We had such positive feedback about Double Dabble: A Feminist Day of Making from our participants (and we also really enjoyed it ourselves!) that we thought it would be nice to run a similar event again.
Angelika and Janis, two of the main organisers of the event, reflected on how things went. Double Dabble: A Feminist Day of Making was organised by fempower.tech, a group of intersectional feminists at Open Lab who seek to explore and raise awareness of feminist issues in HCI. Feminist theory and practice came together at what could be the first of many Double Dabble events.
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