Filtering out ideas through the body...
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Our bodily dimension plays a fundamental role in the ongoing construction of meaning. In this workshop, participants will engage with a series of somatic exercises to get in contact with their senses, aiming to reach their tacit, less explicit dimension of experience. Aesthetic qualities emerging from the act of filtering out ideas through the body will be used as generative tools for creativity, as well as for interrogation of subjective experience. By using a series of wearable devices and artefacts from everyday life, participants will explore the nuanced differences between sensing and felt-sensing, and how the use of somatic tools and stimuli from wearables can shape the way personal narratives are expressed.
Topics
Location
2F, Multipurpose Room 2
Keio University
Schedule
9.00am Registration open
9.30am Studio START
PART ONE: Inquiring through the senses
Introduction.
10.30 - 10.50am COFFEE BREAK
Exploring vibro-tactile patterns with microelectronics:
12.00 - 12.45pm LUNCH BREAK (Lunch boxes are supplied)
PART TWO: Inquiring through the felt-sense
Evaluation of wearables through the body:
3.00 - 3.20pm COFFEE BREAK
4.30pm CLOSE
6 - 8pm Welcome reception for Studios and GSC
Note to participants
No previous experience in somatic techniques is necessary. Although the manipulation of wearable electronics and microcontrollers is involved in some of the exercises, no previous programming experience is required. Participants will be asked to bring their laptops to engage with the exercises. Wearable artefacts, microcontrollers and other materials will be provided.
Please install the following software BEFORE the studio:
Topics
- The importance of understanding the inner self in design research and in the practice of experience-centred design
- Focusing as a somatic technique to access the tacit dimension of experience.
- The role of the body in the articulation of aesthetic qualities.
- Wearable technology as scaffolding for meaning generation, and how the body “find its way” to interpret phenomena despite potentially adverse conditions.
- Transparency is not the only way: The cycle of bodily self-awareness in the interaction with wearable artefacts.
Location
2F, Multipurpose Room 2
Keio University
Schedule
9.00am Registration open
9.30am Studio START
PART ONE: Inquiring through the senses
Introduction.
- Welcome
- Presentation: The body as a generative source - Differences between senses, feelings and felt-senses, and their relevance for design
- The homunculus exercise
- Brief discussion
- Physical exercises
10.30 - 10.50am COFFEE BREAK
Exploring vibro-tactile patterns with microelectronics:
- Designing haptic patterns with vibration motors.
- Practicing haptic-based bodily sensing and evaluation.
12.00 - 12.45pm LUNCH BREAK (Lunch boxes are supplied)
PART TWO: Inquiring through the felt-sense
Evaluation of wearables through the body:
- Utilisation of wearable artefacts in conjunction with the somatic technique Focusing, to explore how personal narratives are shaped by different bodily stimuli and awareness.
- Generative discussion on aesthetic qualities by generating notes.
3.00 - 3.20pm COFFEE BREAK
- Felt-sensing archetypes and how to use them
- Closing discussion: Lessons and challenges.
4.30pm CLOSE
6 - 8pm Welcome reception for Studios and GSC
Note to participants
No previous experience in somatic techniques is necessary. Although the manipulation of wearable electronics and microcontrollers is involved in some of the exercises, no previous programming experience is required. Participants will be asked to bring their laptops to engage with the exercises. Wearable artefacts, microcontrollers and other materials will be provided.
Please install the following software BEFORE the studio:
| tei2017_studio_-_software_setup_v2.pdf |
| pattern_mosquito.ino |
| personal_pattern.ino |
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Research Study
If you would like to participate in our research study, please read this Participant Information Sheet. |
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