Pulling out 3 things
One thing that resonates from this first workshop is the refreshing openness and intimacy of everyone here. An openness to listen, a willingness to share. The focus on the body perhaps supports this.
One thing that I desire is to make things in the weave and wash of stirring, inspiring conversations. To shift from a focus on the development of design methods and tools, to the application of these methods and tools, together with the methods and skills of others in the project, in the production of an actual interactive work. Or should I say, experimental prototypes! Or perhaps new ways of working to produce such things. I do desire that new spaces are created that draw out and seduce us into more playful, curious and novel ways of moving … that bring an aliveness to our everyday existence.
One thing that I can offer to the group is the ability to mediate between the danced, the felt and the designed. This is an ability that I am still in the process of cultivating. In my design research practice, I am interested in ways of traversing between the felt, experience (particularly of movement) and ways of representing movement that can act as resources for design. Some of the methods and tools I work with include movement-oriented personas and scenarios, Laban floor plans for representing spatial trajectories of people, scenario enactment and movement improvisation scores for prototype and user testing. I am especially interested in the creative potential of the moving body and how we can generate design ideas and concepts from the experiential, moving body. The notion of making strange with the moving body is one approach that demands we interrogate our assumptions about our bodies in movement through a range of movement-based techniques.
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