#embodied practice

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To speak of emptiness is to speak of the most misunderstood concept in both metaphysics and lived practice, for the human intellect recoils before the notion of nothingness, attempting to populate the void with conceptual scaffolds rather than inhabit it. Yet in the Buddhist articulation of śūnyatā (शून्यता, emptiness), the void is not negation but plenitude—the inexhaustible field of potential…

Heart at Sea Level If you have seen this heart shaped feature in the cliffs, it was likely whilst circling Lundy by boat. A fracture in the granite, shaped uncannily like a heart, opens briefly in the cliff face. The heart only becomes visible when the body is positioned in a particular way — held at sea level, moving, circling. It is not something you walk past. From land, it is not visible.…

The landscape of contemporary education is inseparable from the machinery of capital. Across continents, curricula are standardised to optimise for labour-market compliance, while testing regimes reduce human learning to metrics that feed predictive analytics and investment portfolios. Surveillance platforms harvest student data as a raw resource for profit. Even the rhetoric of “lifelong…

And, of course, here you are GGSC’s Happiness Calendar for this month, whose topic are growth and change. As usual, here are some suggestions for you. We all know that happiness is often conceived within modern consciousness as a static achievement, a fixed state to be acquired through accomplishment, accumulation, or the avoidance of discomfort. Within this paradigm, the human psyche is…

What can bodies do?

The roles in which the body play, in terms of design, how the body is used a tool to evoke….

The roles in which the body plays, and the movements of ritual, performative

Embodied practice focuses solely on the body and its ability to serve as a tool to communicate design ideas and design practice? -Performative tool

Engaging the body through experience design, and evoking emotive, sensory responses from using the body as the focal point…

Embodied practice, research and project- using all tools and strategies available

“These are core areas of human practice like movement, rhythm, touch, song, speech, storytelling, combat, sexuality, gesture and facial expression. “ 8

“drawing upon critical theories from fields like philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, and cognitive studies in order to provide further grounding for research that takes place through embodied practice.” 13

Embodied research- lineage, history, roots and branches of topic, pushing research further to where the source began,

EMBODIED COGNITION

Movement Knowledge

#BelmontBabyDolls collaborate with Berlin/Toronto artist, Shannon Lewis @lolas_venus (recently in residence at @aliceyardinsta) for its 2019 presentation “Carnival Baby” for Trinidad Carnival 2019. 

The artist writes: