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Free | Battersea | Places available

Key details

Time

  • 6:45pm – 8:30pm

Location

  • Battersea
  • Gorvy Lecture Theatre

Price

  • Free

Who can attend

  • Everyone

Type

  • Book launch

The evening with the author, Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo will feature responses from artist Heather Phillipson, Dr Josephine Berry and Dr Emily Candela. Followed by a drinks reception.

How is the imperative to manage risk transforming contemporary visual language? Are the rhetorics of danger, reassurance, and rationality convincing us that we are prepared—and at what cost? Through the analysis of artworks, warnings, pre-enactments, and data visualisations, Aesthetics of Risk explores how art and design can shape risk perception and transform the ways we live with uncertainty.

Aesthetics of Risk