Body as Place Workshop
Fri 09 Jul
|Civic Lab Symposium
This workshop will develop awareness of the ways our bodies might be thought of as our primary unit of localism - the point in which we can establish a sense of home, community and togetherness.
Time & Location
09 Jul 2021, 14:00 BST
Civic Lab Symposium
About the event
This workshop is offered as part of the Civic Lab Symposium,. Responding to the theme of Civic Placemaking, it places empahsis upon the role of the body in placemaking.
Extending from the question: how can we establish a sense of belonging when modern relationships with our bodies are so fragile? This workshop will provide a space to explore the body as place. Specifically, how an embodied arts approach can create an effective sense of 'home' through [re]connecting with our bodies.
Climate crisis, Covid-19, global diaspora and an irrepressible techno-industrial society are teaching us about the human need for connection. Our experience of withdrawal from the rest of nature, from other humans, from home, brings with it another acute realisation - the troubling notion that humans are experiencing disconnection from their own bodies (Walla 2009). The daily practices of our western lives have evolved to favour the mind over the body.…