Embodiment journey at Aalto University

Alto University Course / Embodied knowledge workshop 2021-2022

Exploring the role of the body in creating knowledge, practice and personal experience.

Aalto Workshop / Assembling alterities with Kira O ́Reilly 2022

Exploring alterities within the body, physical, material, non-human etc.

Aalto Workshop / Balance, Energy, Re-connecting to Life with Carolina Paulino 2022

Playing with elements, freedom and gravity.

Aalto Workshop /Capacity Building of Creative Radicals with Theory U and Social Presencing Theatre 2022

Learning frameworks that catalyse personal and systemic change.

Aalto Intensive Course / Field Ecology in Partiosaari island 2022

Exploring relationalities with the ecology of the island.

Throughout my Master Degree at Aalto University I underwent a journey in embodiment. What called my attention was the need to extend change to a body level.

Below you find a bibliography of experiences I undertook:

Learnings

    • design researcher

    • embodiment student

    • Somatic writing facilitation for a group of 20

    • Embodiment major texts understanding

    • Versatile tool set for embodiment workshop

    • Body memory

    • IDG goals relevance & appplication

    • Embodiment application into design

  • The role of the body in creating knowledge in professional practice and in shaping personal experience.

  • The intersectionality of the body (the cultural vs the natural body).

  • Bodying as a process of becoming, the body as relational, as porous, interdependent, of affect and transformation.

  • Collective energy is a trigger of potentiality and reflection

  • Presence and its emergence of the strange vs the familiar.

  • Subjectivity that is conditioned by the subject, our state, institutions, the higher structure (micropolitical vs macropolitical).

  • Learning to trust e.g through touch. Coming to the senses and reflecting via engaging materiality.

  • Embodiment as a figuration to understand entanglement with more than human.

  • Somatic writing, how the body is limited and can be somewhat expressed via words.

SESSIONS

Balance with Carolina Paulino

Re-connecting to Life with Carolina Pauilno

Assembling alterities with Kira O ́Reilly

Energy with Carolina Paulino