Workshop at the Elia conference

…During ELIA Academy we would like to have unexpected dialogues with colleagues in Europe. We will experiment with interventions following our so-called PIMDI cycle: Disruption – Suspension – Confrontation – Exploring – Translation. We have already tried out these kinds of experiments within our learning community of lecturers and students of the six master programs involved. We would like to share our experiences..

14.30	start	Startup: coming in, introducing, names.
14.35	Explanation General and explanation step 1 5 min	Step 1: preparation for the dialogue: make your private space and prepare shape-giving to voices -Use the tape to mark your own private space in the room. -In this space, you give shape to 3 of your different voices using objects wood, clay, rope and wire) and/or sounds, and/or movements. A. Choose 3 of your voices (imagine yourself in different circumstances). B. Assign these voices to one of the given materials or sounds or movements
14.40	Explanation & Execution 10 min	Step 2: the creation of a dialogue space. – look at each other and at your own marked private spaces – take your tape with you and start walking without speaking to a meeting point in the room – start from this point to mark a dialogue space for the two of you, using the tape. Keep looking at each other regularly.
14.50	Explanation and execution 5 min	The experiment is rounded up. Exchange your experiences in duos.
14.55	Explanation and execution 10 min	Step 3 Imaginative dialogue without words-Now you start a dialogue without words with each other. You use your own voices as put in wooden- or clay objects, in sounds or in movements, to explore the different voices of the other person. If it is really needed at a certain point, you may use a limited set of words to make clear which characteristics you bring into the field.
	Explanation and execution 5 min	Step 4: -Watch and listen to how the dialogue between you has developed. -Now take your tape and mark the dialogue space again, according to the dialogue that has been taking place. Did the shape of it change? Does it overlap with the earlier dialogue space? Show it!
15.10	Duo- exchange 5 min	Reflection with the whole group -We sit in a circle on the ground – Describe your experiences – Was this an imaginative dialogue for you? How? Which elements made it imaginative?
15.15	Dialogue about PIMDI 15 min	Reflection with whole group -We sit in a circle on the ground – Describe your experiences – Was this an imaginative dialogue for you? How? Which elements made it imaginative?

Authors: Gudrun Beckmann and Nathalie Beekman