Embodied Futures: Political Imagination for Shared Spaces

About

At this point, we know the feeling all too well. Everything matters, all the time. Exhausted by the never-ending wars and endless scrolling, our bodies are completely worn out, and our nervous systems are stuck in a state of emergency. Too often, we feel like we “can’t see a future.”
This course views imagination not as an individual disposition but as a shared and generative process. It focuses on cultivating political imagination through embodied, visual, and spatial practices. Through workshops and collective encounters, participants will explore the fragile connections between urbanism’s (often contested) pasts, presents, and potential futures. They will develop performative and speculative methods to reimagine shared spaces – moving beyond the calculated and predictable toward futures that are possible, plausible, and even preposterous.
Like a public laboratory, the studio emphasizes the potential of performative and visual tools to inspire imagination as a collective act. Through experimental explorations, participants will engage with the complex relationships between body, data, and public space, fostering the creation of social technologies that challenge prevailing norms and propose transformative visions for living bodies in urban environments. By employing somatic and collaborative practices, participants will critically examine how their bodies are regulated by emerging data landscapes and develop tools to provoke critical questions and reimagine the political and social potential of public space

Course leader

Ofri Cnaani

Target group

Performance

Installation

Mixed media

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