Making

  • Drawing from Articles

    Drawing from Articles Students have different articles to read Purpose: Who for: Author: Lisbet Skregelid, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Sculpting a Picture

    Sculpting a Picture Defining a professional role by making an embodied picture: using other students as material Purpose:          Who with:       Variations:                  Author: Gudrun Beckmann and Nathalie Beekman, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Netherlands.

  • Moment(s) of Embodied Reflection, in various locations

    Moment(s) of Embodied Reflection, in Various Locations Background: This method was created for PIMDI intensive week in Kristiansand, April 2022. It is based on work with and for dance and theatre pedagogy MA students at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. It is purposefully guided and formatted in a “supra-subjective” mode, that is, without an…

  • 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 Individual  Walk around individually and find a tree that you are drawn to. Lay down underneath it and place a piece of paper on your chest or next to you. Start drawing your tree without looking at the paper. Take turns in looking, sensing, and drawing, looking, sensing, and drawing.  After 10 minutes the group…

  • Language  

    Language Five together    Find a place/situation where you feel connected. Write down 3–5 words /phrases on separate paper and bring them inside.    One by one the group will arrange and rearrange the pieces of paper on the floor in silence and read it together when the composition is done.   Three together    Find an object that…

  • 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 Development of a teaching method focused on encountering and imaginative dialogue from the Kristiansand Intensive week in 2022. Encounters at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum-SKMU with pupils from KNUDEN Cultural School of Kristiansand.  Pupils made multiple blind drawings of each other´s faces on tracing paper…

  • Differences in the same and same in the difference

    Differences in the Same and Same in the Difference In short Development of a teaching method focused on encountering and imaginative dialogue from the Kristiansand Intensive week in 2022. Encounters at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum-SKMU with pupils from KNUDEN Cultural School of Kristiansand.  Pupils were invited to imagine themselves in different time settings, from the past, present, and…

  • 2D 3D play

    2D 3D Play In short Development of a teaching method focused on encountering an imaginative dialogue from the Kristiansand Intensive week in 2022.Encounters at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum-SKMU with pupils from KNUDEN Cultural School of Kristiansand. 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 PIMDI student presentation from the Helsinki Intensive week in 2021.Encounters with elderly people in care homes.  Students invited a group of the elderly to a drawing site where the barrier of language was transcended by other means of communication. Creative ways of creating a drawing were explored by students and participants…