Navigations: Scoring the Moment

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Join us to celebrate the launch of Navigations, a publication by dancer, choreographer and Theatrum Mundi Research Fellow, Adesola Akinleye.

There are cities that are walking cities or driving cities; there are quiet, loud, fast, slow, broad or high cities, and the bodies within them are shaped by the need to navigate them, while that process of navigation, in turn, shapes the cities. Urban designers, engineers, architects, exhibition curators and choreographers share a common interest in creating movement around, in, and through places.

Each of these disciplines comes with its own language, verbal and/or somatic: a structured system of words, ideas, movements, rules, meanings and assumptions that can lead to slippages or ‘failures’ in communication outside the narrow field of their specialisms. And those instances of slippages have provided the starting point for dancer, choreographer and Theatrum Mundi’s Research Fellow Adesola Akinleye to define a transdisciplinary lexicon of Place-making: a scaffolding for shared exploration, liberating communication from the contingencies and limitations of different subject areas.

Edited  by Marta Michalowska and published by Theatrum Mundi Editions, Navigations marks the end of the second and final phase of her fellowship. Adesola will be joined by dancer, choreographer and scholar Helen Kindred, and Navigations editor Marta Michalowska, in an evening of discussions that will invite the audience to engage with the captivating Navigations transdisciplinary lexicon.