Embodied awareness involves an intuitive perception of design contexts using the body, the breath, or other physical senses together with subtle inner signals, including emotions, thoughts, felt-senses, and memory.
Case Studies
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Haptic portrait of the body
Art And Media Education Major 2023 Aalto University Minna Suoniemi In the context of rehearsals with body movement and performative approach. Each student has a large paper of the size of their body taped on the floor. We warm up by feeling the body’s structure: first the bones, then the muscles, then the skin. After
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Bricolage
Interdisciplinary Fine Arts BA/MA TUAS Trier Jörg Obergfell Every student is asked to bring 10 pieces of wood. Out of those, they are asked to create a sculptural shelf for the course reference materials. The structure is built without plan and in total silence. It is finished when no material is left over. In this activity,
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Eating a Raisin
BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona Jaron Rowan After doing 3 minutes of breathing/body work we get the students to sit down and in silence eat a raisin. The prompt is to do it slowly and pay attention to every detail. After 5 minutes they have to write down the eating experience. By focusing on
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Three Steps Process
The Geometry Workshop is a creative platform designed for all students at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, where they can develop and express their creative inclinations through exploration of geometry, various forms and compositions, visually interpreting their works in different ways.
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Marks to Meaning
Paige Williams Art Academy of Cincinnatti, 1st Year Experience BA This is a project for a first-year communication experience design course. The students were asked to first create 50 squares of 4’ x 4’ as source materials. For 25 squares, students were instructed to draw marks in as many ways, with as many different materials
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Towards a Creative Education System in Ireland
Mary Hawkes Greene Burren College of Art We convened representatives of the entire Irish education system for a 3 ½ day immersive engagement at the Burren College of Art, a professional Art School. We facilitated a large group of participants using creative methodologies that are loosely based on Theory U (Otto Scharner), to enable deep
