Embodied workshops

Drawing on embodiment and materiality in workshop setting

Current design techniques often view humans from the purely "cognitive" perspective, as if they were only "brains" floating around, instead of real humans with bodies. The embodied approach to design puts emphasis on our lived body-based experience, and combines bodily and cognitive experiences as the ground for designing. The embodied approach further extends the current practices focused on body and aims to bring them to contexts where non-designers can take part, by making sure to build up capacities of participants to imagine alternative possibilities, take part in the workshops and engage with the material in a way meaningful for them.

Testing and tinkering in Copenhagen

In May 2024, I co-organized a workshop with Irene Kaklopoulou (Umeå University), where we tinkered with different senses with a group of human-computer interaction students and researchers and tested what solutions could be developed when we practice noticing.

Noticing in Umeå

In February 2024, as part of my visit at the Umeå university, I co-organized a workshop with Irene Kaklopoulou (Umeå University), where we experimented with a range of materials and together with a group of designers and informatics students and researchers explored, how noticing could improve our knowledge practices.

Collaborative making in Bergen

In August 2023, I organized a workshop at Bergen university, where we with a group of designers, informatics students and researchers, we explored collaborative making based on gentle movement.

Scaling in Salzburg

In May 2023, I organized a workshop at Salzburg university, where we with a group of designers and Human-Computer Interaction students and researchers, we created personal and creative scales based on the embodied methods.

Being (with) plants: Design edition

In November 2022, I organized a workshop at the Gothenburg University, where students co-created a collaborative painting by engaging with plants, meditating and drawing.

Being (with) plants: Art edition

In October 2022, I co-organized a workshop as part of the Sustainability festival, where we explored the idea of creating participatory art through exploring the ideas of becoming (with) plants.

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