2025 - 2026 FACTORY student led: WHY DO YOU GOSSIP?
NOVEMBER 22, 2025
Led by Asmaa Barakat
When: 20:30 - 22:00
Location: Small Library
This Factory workshop is about GOSSIPING!
“Though not about gossip directly, it connects personal narrative and informal communication to political critique.” Johanna Hedva – Sick Woman Theory (2016)
The workshop considers how informal speech, and shared uncertainty might become tools for collective thought. We will unfold together the act of gossiping and why we do we gossip.
It is an invitation to create a manifestation towards a booklet about gossiping and we will discuss if gossiping is truly A SAFETY NET!
Reading material: Case Study: Gossip as Communication System by Sarah Hamerman
This student initiative is facilitated by DAI by making it part of the syllabus 2025-2026 and by providing space and time for gathering. It is embedded in the curriculum component WEAVER and participation is credited with ECTS.