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Interview with Prof. Wilson Poon

October 16, 2020

Watch as Rob Barton, IAS Director of Social Sciences, interviews IAS Fellow Wilson Poon about his work with the Material Imagination project.

IAS Artist in Residence

September 10, 2020

While the majority of our 2020/21IAS Fellowship is virtual, we are delighted to confirm that artist Sarah Danays joins us in Durham for her Fellowship from October to March.

Project lead, Margarita Staykova, reflects on the exciting potential of living materials, and how the very processes of life - emergence, adaptation, resilience and death - can be used to develop new materials.

The Lambton Worm and First Australians: Tom Murray at the IAS

Aug 2, 2020

In this piece, 2017 Structure Fellow Tom Murray considers how his Fellowship study of the Lambton Worm ties in with his interest in narratives of ‘otherness’ and his recent film ‘The Skin of Others’.