Reflective

  • 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 (https://artography.edcp.educ.ubc.ca), from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, Senses Sustainability Education? Purpose: Who for: Variations: Helene Illeris and Lisbet Skregelid, a shared teaching practice together with xxx, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Learning Biography

    Learning Biography This is a specific task at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences arts pedagogy MA program. During the program application phase, the students are already reflecting on their learning already when applying to the program and then each semester during their first study year by writing down how they see their different roles.…

  • 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.

  • Word Shower

    Word Shower Everyone’s eyes closed, in a circle or open positioning in the space Purpose: Who with: Duration: Author: Hye Joung Park, 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.

  • Looking at the Dimensions of a Topic

    Looking at the Dimensions of a Topic Purpose: Who with: Variations: Author: Gudrun Beckmann, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands.

  • 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.

  • A Quick Embodied Reflection of a Class

    A Quick Embodied Reflection of a Class At the end of the class, in a circle / free formation, eyes closed: Purpose:                      Who with:       Variations:      Duration:         Author: Nathalie Beekman, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands.

  • Name and Weather Condition

    Name and Weather Condition In the PIMDI intensive week in Iceland, this exercise was done when the group first met together. In a circle, each person takes their turn, saying their name and a weather condition that they relate to or feel that they could embody at that moment. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Authors:…

  • The Voice of the Environment

    The Voice of the Environment In short A proposition to help people in general, and designers and change makers in particular, to enter into an intensive dialogue with the more-than-human. A dialogue with the environment involves expanding our ways of learning and developing knowledge. It is about learning by learning from the more-than-human, things themselves.…

  • 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…

  • 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 UNDER CONSTRUCTION Embodied, multimodal reflection methods LINK