On the 3rd of October 2008 around 25 postgrads from all over the UK (and one participant even made the journey from Holland!) came together at the Open University in Milton Keynes for a one day postgraduate workshop:

*Flows, Doings, Edges II- anatomies of a relational research process*

Invited speakers were Jamie Lorimer (Kings College), Beth Greenhough (Queen Mary), John Law (Lancaster), Steve Hinchliffe (Open) and Nick Bingham (Open).

A workshop flyer can be downloaded here.

A workshop programme can be downloaded from here: flowsdoings-edges-ii-programme

Here are some first impressions from the workshop, more videos and reflections to come soon…

The workshop was organised by:

Lucila Newell, Open University ( l.newell @ open.ac.uk )
Michaela Spencer, Lancaster University ( m.spencer @ lancaster.ac.uk )
Uli Beisel, Open University ( u.beisel @ open.ac.uk )

During the morning we split up in groups to discuss different themes:

Language/writing

Practices

Matter/human – non-human

Multiplicity and Difference

Each group discussed some of the challenges they faced when dealing with the themes above, and created clusters of post-its that reflected these discussions, as well as thought of questions to ask the speakers in the afternoon. To follow these themes, look at the challenges and questions, go to the pages on each theme.

I just thought I kick off proceedings with one of the questions which was posed, several times, throughout the symposium… what is meant by ‘relationality?’

Please post here any events that you think could interest somebody that likes relational stuff!

In this space we would like to post stuff that you have found interesting for thinking relational stuff. Please also add some comment on the reading, it does not have to be super long or clever (though you can do this to!), just a hint as to why you found it interesting or useful…