S01 Episode 05: Johannes Birringer on cross overs between body, performance, technology and underground spaces
Release Date: 11/01/2019
S01 Episode 05: Johannes Birringer on cross overs between body, performance, technology and underground spaces
Remember Your Body
Johannes Birringer, Professor of Performance Technologies at Brunel University, talks to Eline Kieft about his journey into combining dance and performance with technologies
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S02 Episode 07: Juhani Pallasmaa on experiencing architecture through art and sensing, the mind-body continuum and architecture as a gift
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Juhani Pallasmaa on why art and a multi sensory approach are at the heart of architecture.
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S02 Episode 6: Peter Merriman on mobility studies and the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movement
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In Episode 6 of Series 2, leading mobility studies expert Professor Peter Merriman, from Aberystwyth University, talks about the development of the discipline as a field of study in the social sciences, why taking an interdisciplinary approach is important to him and his drive to understand the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movement and their impact on national identity and nationalism.
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S02 Episode 05: Auxiliadora Gálvez on how profound spatial awareness learned from choreography and the Feldenkrais Method inspires the practice and teaching of radical sustainable architecture
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Auxiliadora Gálvez on using Feldenkrais training for an embodies approach to architecture.
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S02 Episode 4: Arawana Hayashi on social presencing, improvisation and paying attention to each other in organizational settings, and connecting body and mind for a more awareness-based society
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Arawana Hayashi on using arts, meditation and social justice in organisational settings and encouraging change through a move towards compassion- and awareness-based systems.
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S01 Episode 04: Tim Ingold on The crisis of ethnography, the problem with embodiment, human becomings and exploding cellos
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Tim Ingold, Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Aberdeen, talks to Ben Spatz about the difference between anthropology and ethnography, the importance of collaboration, skilled practice and playing the cello, why he finds the idea of the body problematic, and why he thinks of people as human becomings rather than beings.
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S02 Episode 03: Brian Massumi and Erin Manning on the economic challenge to collectively reorganize how we value money
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In Part 2 of our interview with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi we talk about the emerging 3 Ecologies Process Seed Bank, and how post-Blockchain technologies could reverse today’s economic balance, to collectively emphasize our qualities of experience, making monetary aspects peripheral to our everyday lives
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S02 Episode 2: Erin Manning and Brian Massumi on critical somatic individualisation and why we need more movement in university education and architecture
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Erin Manning and Brian Massumi talk to Doerte Weig about schizo-somatic workshops at the Senselab, and how new ways of thinking and moving with relational openness and group subjectivity would benefit teaching and learning in universities of the future
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S02 Episode 1: Gil Hedley on integral human anatomy, fascia and the link between body fat and consumer culture
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In Episode 1 of Series 2 talks to Doerte Weig about how discovering our inner bodies allows us to experience our bodies as continuous, to accept muscles as scientific mental creations, to understand how our connective tissues fascia enables movement, and how with appreciation for our bodies we can even come to love our fat.
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S01 Episode 03: Jonathan Skinner on Concerns regarding the body in fieldwork, analysis and writing
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Dr Jonathan Skinner from Roehampton University talks to Eline Kieft about how dance has become integral to his research and teaching.
info_outlineIn Episode 5 of Series 1, Johannes Birringer, choreographer and Professor of Performance Technologies at Brunel University talks to Eline Kieft about his journey into combining dance and performance with technologies, why an evolution of body knowledge is more important to him than a specific identity, how our bodies are educated by environments, sensorial experiences and wearables, and how the unknown can be a fertile learning space for growth, creativity and student-learning. The episode includes some wonderful sound-bites to highlight the variety of environmental and sensorial stimuli, based on Birringer's workshop on “underground spatialities” (for Rice University’s Anthropology students).
The episode includes some wonderful sound-bites to highlight the variety of environmental and sensorial stimuli.
Episode notes
Useful links:
http://www.aliennationcompany.com
http://undergroundspatialities.com/
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