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
Release Date: 04/11/2019
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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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Juhani Pallasmaa on why art and a multi sensory approach are at the heart of architecture.
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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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Auxiliadora Gálvez on using Feldenkrais training for an embodies approach to architecture.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dr Jonathan Skinner from Roehampton University talks to Eline Kieft about how dance has become integral to his research and teaching.
info_outlineIn Episode 4 of Series 2 Arawana Hayashi, who heads up the Social Presencing Theater program for the MIT-born Presencing Institute in Boston, talks about her efforts to use her background in the arts, meditation and social justice in organisational settings. She discusses the development of the change framework “Theory U”, and how she and colleagues such as Otto Sharmer put it to use working with NGOs, businesses and Governments, to encourage change by developing capacities for thinking about the whole system, and by moving towards compassion- and awareness-based systems.