Event
Freedom of Movement


June 5th 2006 in Berlin, meet Gesundbrunnen S bahn Station


CREATIVE MOVEMENT AND THINKING
URBAN CLIMBING AND GROUP DISCUSSION

BY TREATING THE BOUNDARIES AND LINEAR STRUCTURES OF THE CITY AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CREATIVE MOVEMENT DO WE BEGIN TO THINK BEYOND THE NEED TO BUILD, POLICE AND PERPETUATE FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES WITHIN OURSELVES, SOCIALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY?

EXPLORE THE URBAN CLIMBING FRAMES OF BERLIN, FIND NEW, EXCITING THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR BODY AND A RAILING, A LAMPPOST OR WHAT EVER TAKES YOUR FANCY. LOOK AT THE CITY WITH NEW EYES, SEE POTENTIAL FOR PLAY. REAWAKEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL AGILITY THAT'S BECOME LOST THROUGH REPETITIVE UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIOUR IN THE CITY. TRY NEW MOVEMENTS AND WAYS OF THINKING. IT’S NOT HOW HIGH YOU CAN CLIMB IT'S FINDING AND CHALLENGING YOUR OWN LIMITS.

WE INTEGRATE WITH LINEAR INFRASTRUCTUR IN THE CITY, WHEN RIDING THE UBAHN, A TRAM, THE ROAD OR WALKING THE PAVEMENT, OUR BEHAVIOUR AND MOVEMENTS AND THINKING ARE CONDITIONED AS WE RELATE TO THESE SYSTEMS.

Methodology
An evolving methodology for collaborative meaning making about political and social factors at play in a chosen locality that enables us to move through it integrating the physical with the intellectual by engaging in unfamiliure tasks requiring lawless, deviant, childish behaviour. This results in deepening of engagement with the locality, one's own senses and other group members and provides insights that would be unatianable in a conference situation.

Key Elements
A training programme introducing physical movement and creative interventions with, in , through, over boundaries and structures - physical, social, psychological to develop thinking and behaviour that is embodied and responsive treating obstacles as opportunities for creative engagement.
Contributions from diverse interested participants in the form of special skill, information relevant to the particular issues of the location, personal expereince related to topic of discussion.

Outcome
Insights from the training sessions are presented in a map, a framework that contextualises the insights gained socially and politically.

presently applying this methodology in Berlin on the topics of risk and freedom of movement and in North Greenwich on the topic of public green space. (see AccidentalHoliday)

Berlin
participants include
Henri from the Voice Regugee Forum
Dina - capoeirista
nathan and mara - seven and eight year old children
Nanna Leuth - artist, photographer, theorist
Architecture students from the technical university
Stella Geppert - artist and lecturer at the Technical University
Philip Horst - " "
Mike - yoga teacher
Qilla - eleven year old girl


"The body-mind connection lies in movement - in fact, is movement...
Movement is the constant change and interplay in the relationship between
body, mind, and psyche." Laban, inventor of dance notation.

http://www.malinky.org/files/Video001.3gp∞

http://www.arttransponder.net/34.0.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=5&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=33&cHash=a56e0c22d5∞

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