Reflecting

  • Radical listening

    Radical listening “Thinking Where Words are Still Missing”: Radical Listening as a Tool to Promote Creative Thinking and Interactional Self-Reliance Momo’s talent for listening … what Momo was better at than anyone else was listening. Anyone can listen, you may say — what’s so special about that? — but you’d be wrong. Very few people…

  • Acting Out Discourses

    Acting Out Discourses   Drawing from Articles Purpose: Who with:  

  • 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…

  • Propositions

    Propositions Background: Propositions comes from a/r/tography , from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, Senses Sustainability Education. Purpose: Who for: Variations: Helene Illeris and Lisbet Skregelid, a shared teaching practice, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Haiku 

    Haiku Background: Haiku is a Japanese-origin form of poetry that captures moments in a very small space and leaves room for imagination. Basic form is the following:  three phrases, 17 syllables, structure: 5-7-5 (short, long, short). There are no rhymes in haiku. Haikus are simple, minimalistic, symbolic, and they focus on nature, perceptions, senses, emotions. Haikus…

  • 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.

  • Dancing to Playlist Related to Months 

    Dancing to Playlist Related to Months This method was created for a reflection session that covered the whole academic year. Instructions: Purpose: Who for: Variations: Duration: Author: Eeva Anttila, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

  • 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.

  • Looking at the Dimensions of a Topic

    Looking at the Dimensions of a Topic Purpose: Who with: Variations: This way of embodied reflecting on topics is used by Gudrun Beckmann at the master’s programme in Groningen.

  • 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.

  • Positioning Different Roles in Space

    Positioning Different Roles in Space An imagined spatial triangle of roles: teacher, artist, researcher Purpose:          Who with:       Variations:      Authors: Gudrun Beckmann and Nathalie Beekman, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Netherlands.

  • Reflection Through Movement

    Reflection Through Movement At the end of a class, or after a set of tasks, participants may choose a location in the space where they feel comfortable, either standing up or sitting down. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Author: Pauliina Laukkanen, Tempest Group / visiting teacher at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Embodied reflection method

    Reflective Documentation Reflective documentation is one of the five intellectual outputs of the PIMDI -project. It has been developed it throughout the project in collaboration with all partners, teachers, and students. Uniarts Helsinki has been responsible for this Intellectual Output 4. Here, we present the four elements that have been created within IO4.