Choreographing the City: rhythms and relationships

Engineering uses empirical measurements of time and space to make predictions about the way physical systems will work. But there are also other ways of describing these phenomena that are embedded in the practices of dance making. Choreographic thinking has the potential to offer a different approach, seeing space as a set of mobile relationships and dividing time into rhythms rather than stable units of measurement.
 
In this workshop, Adesola explored how somatic-thinking (choreographic thinking) has the potential to challenge habitually used empirical measurements and therefore offers a different approach to envisioning the design of spaces. Using the architecture of the Institution of Civil Engineers as a study site, the session explored how to analyse a building via the movement theories that draw on her experience as a dancer. Participatory reflective debate questioned the implications of cross-cultural/specialist ideals, how we approach the physicality of urban spaces, and new design horizons.​

Part of a series of exploratory workshops being led by Theatrum Mundi as part of Choreographing the City.

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