Walking

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.…

  • Walk: Detour 

    Walk: Detour In short These exercises are done in pairs. Once the participants understand the process, the exercise is executed in silence.   Process  

  • 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…

  • Listening walk

       Listening walk In short   A prerequisite of any dialogue, hence also the imaginative dialogue, is the sensitivity of listening. This is an exercise where the participants share their choice of place and a poem in their own language. The participants make recordings of their exploration and reading of the poem. Each participant is conscious…

  • WALKING AND ENCOUNTERING: building embodied connections

    Walking and Encountering: Building Embodied Connections by Myrskyryhmä – The Tempest Group (Elli Isokoski and Pauliina Laukkanen) In Short: This exercise guides the participant into an embodied experiencing of self with others. It creates and supports an embodied connection between participants. Set-Up:  Large open space, group of participants. Timeframe: Approximately 30 minutes. Before the start…