Making

  • Silence

    Silence Before the intensive week in Iceland teachers and master students from the Iceland University of the Arts prepared a day of workshops for the other participants. It resulted in three short and open exercises that enabled people to work in an explorative way and to compare different perspectives. The three exercises are Language, Outside and Silence. 10 people…

  • Heated Dialogue

    Heated dialogue In short:  Is it possible to build a safe and brave space with the help of some objects and a set of rules? Will it help the participants to share their opposing opinions on a particular topic in a dialogical manner when they follow the agreed rules for the dialogue? The practice is…

  • Drawing from Articles

    Drawing from Articles     Students have different articles to read Purpose: Who for:  

  • Sculpting a Picture

    Sculpting a Picture Defining a professional role by making an embodied picture: using other students as material Purpose:          Who with:       Variations:                  This exercise is used at the master’s programme in Groningen at the beginning of the arts pedagogical studies.

  • Room Based Writing

    Room Based Writing At the start of a learning process, when starting to think about a specific topic, for example ‘light’ or ‘water’. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Author: Gunndis Yr Finnbogadottir, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik.

  • A Personal Running Practice

    A Personal Running Practice Running 5 kilometers three times a week Purpose: Who for: Variations: Article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jade.12381 Author: Lisbet Skregelid, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Walking, Photographing and Recording

    Walking, Photographing and Recording Walking in nature Purpose: Article on the topic coming out later Author: Tormod Anundsen, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Movement Reflection (inspired by the method of Authentic Movement)

    Movement Reflection (inspired by the method of Authentic Movement) Background: Authentic Movement is an approach to creative movement practice (originally known as Movement-in-depth) developed by dancer and Jungian psychologist Mary Starks Whitehouse. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Author: Liisa Jaakonaho, University of the Arts Helsinki.

  • Listening Drawing, Talking about ‘A meaningful place’ 

    Listening Drawing, Talking about ‘A meaningful place‘ In short   For this workshop, I combined the exercise of Radical Listening with a drawing exercise. Couples tell each other about a meaningful place. Afterward, they visualize what they have heard from their peer. New meaningful places emerge from radically listening to each other.   ——— Inspired by…

  • Generative storytelling with different perspectives

    Generative Storytelling with Different Perspectives In short Generating a narrative that captures a meaningful place by scrambling individually written words and sentences related to that place into a collective prose or poetic story. This is an exercise where visiting PIMDI master students ask the local upper secondary pupils to take them to a place that…

  • Outside

    Outside Before the intensive week in Iceland teachers and master students from the Iceland University of the Arts prepared a day of workshops for the other participants. It resulted in three short and open exercises that enabled people to work in an explorative way and to compare different perspectives. The three exercises are Language, Outside…

  • Language  

    Language Before the intensive week in Iceland teachers and master students from the Iceland University of the Arts prepared a day of workshops for the other participants. It resulted in three short and open exercises that enabled people to work in an explorative way and to compare different perspectives. The three exercises are Language, Outside…

  • Unleashing the polyphonic voices within students through sensory activities in the art museum  

    Unleashing Polyphonic Voices within Students through ensory Activities in the Art Museum In short Students developed this idea for an imaginative dialogue with pupils from KNUDEN Cultural School of Kristiansand at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum-SKMU during the intensive week, April 2022. By Kristin, Anton, Sifra Set-upYou will need: Sheets of paper that a see through. Preferably still…

  • Differences in the same and same in the difference

    Differences in the Same and Same in the Difference In short Students developed this idea for an imaginative dialogue with pupils from KNUDEN Cultural School of Kristiansand at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum-SKMU during the intensive week, April 2022. Set upA space with art supplies, paper, magazines, pencils, paint. Access to an exhibition for inspiration or alternatively it…

  • 2D 3D play

    2D 3D Play In short Students developed this idea for an imaginative dialogue with pupils from KNUDEN Cultural School of Kristiansand at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum-SKMU during the intensive week, April 2022. By Anja, Ariana, Natasha Kids explore 2D and 3D through play   Students invited the participants to play with the clear acrylic cubes inside the museum…

  • Collective drawing

    Collective Drawing In short Students developed this idea for an imaginative dialogue with elderly people in care homes during the intensive week in Helsinki, 2021 By Kaia Phil, Marit Jongsma, Marja Rautakorpi and Yixue Chen Ma During the PIMDI week in Helsinki my group talked a lot about having a workshop as equals with the…

  • IMAGE AND BEYOND EXPLORATION

    Image and Beyond Exploration In short   This exercise is meant to explore different perspectives towards culturally controversial matters. During the preparation period, the proposition is executed every day for a short period of time. Each participant spends his/her/their time attentively on an image picked by another participant and shares their reactions with other participants in…

  • From Trash to Treasure

    From Trash to Treasure Assignment on Dialogue:Proposition for four participants, for one week, forever. Report by Lonneke Mertens, student in Master of Art Education in Groningen.Executed by: Kaia, Gamin, Monica, Lonneke Instructions: On Monday: 1. Go outside, take something from nature. I took something which irritates me when left outside: a fruit drink package (Fig.…

  • Imaginative dialogues in Helsinki and Amsterdam. A master’s student tells how her experiences of drawing together inspired her own arts educational practice.

    During the PIMDI week in Helsinki, my group talked a lot about having a workshop as equals with the participants in the elderly home. We didn’t want to treat the residents as people that should be happy to receive something from us, but rather we wanted all of us to blend in and participate. Through…